DailyDot Lorraine Murphy Feedhttp://www.dailydot.com/authors/raincoaster/Lorraine Murphy recent articles from Daily Doten-usTue, 04 Feb 2014 19:15:26 +0000Bell Canada: 22,000 customer passwords leaked by hacking crewhttp://www.dailydot.com/crime/bell-canada-nullcrew-password-hack/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/e5/59/e559976a330039d69ca6c38693476fcb.jpg'></p><p dir="ltr">
Bell Canada is the world&#39;s oldest telephone company, founded in 1880 by Alexander Graham Bell himself and his father. It&rsquo;s also the latest victim of a cyberattack by a notorious hacktivist crew.</p>
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On Feb. 2, Bell issued a press release admitting that a group of hackers known as&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bce.ca/news-and-media/releases/show/bell-response-to-illegal-access-of-small-business-customer-information-at-third-party-supplier?page=1&amp;perpage=10&amp;year=&amp;month=&amp;keyword=">NullCrew had breached a third-party server</a>&nbsp;and released the emails and passwords of 22,421 Bell small business clients, along with five valid credit card numbers.</p>
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&quot;Bell is contacting affected small business customers, has disabled all affected passwords, and has informed appropriate credit card companies,&quot; the company said in the release.</p>
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NullCrew first gained international attention for its high-profile hack hacking of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/aug/29/assange-supporters-claim-hacked-cambridge">Cambridge University</a>&nbsp;(in support of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/wikileaks/">WikiLeaks</a>&nbsp;founder&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/julian-assange/">Julian Assange</a>),&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/hackers-gorilla-time-warner-cas/">Time Warner</a>&nbsp;(for its support of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/copyright-alert-system/">Copyright Alert System</a>), and the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-optpb-cambodia-sweden-pirate-bay/">Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs</a>&nbsp;(over the its treatment of Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg).</p>
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&quot;We really just saw general malpractice on the part of [B]ell that brought them to our eye as a target, and we see the same level of concern now that we released the data, which is upsetting, in my opinion,&quot; siph0n, a member of the crew, told me via encrypted chat.</p>
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NullCrew expects Bell to take responsibility for the breach, regardless of whether it owns the servers or simply leased them from a third-party company. The hacked server traces to Ottawa-region ISP Magma, and according to NullCrew, the server was running software from 2008. The hack itself was, as is typical for the crew, an SQL injection; that method is common on sites that have customer log-ins. Siph0n told me that it took only an hour to find and exploit the vulnerability.</p>
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From boasts on Twitter, it appears the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/36733/bell-canada-hacked-by-nullcrew/">hack itself occurred</a>&nbsp;on or around Jan. 10. Subsequent to that, in a show of bravado, the hackers contacted Bell customer service to warn them that someone out there was cruising their servers and had found vulnerabilities.</p>
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<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2014/2/3/Bell_Chat.png" style="width: 489px; height: 335px;" /><br />
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The&nbsp;<a href="http://nullcrew.org/bell.txt">NullCrew website</a>, which had hosted the leaked emails and passwords, has been taken offline by its host, although the hackers have created at least one encrypted mirror site. Their&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/null_ofc">Twitter account</a>&nbsp;tweeted the link and password to the encrypted site, but it has been suspended in turn.</p>
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&quot;We&rsquo;re not providing details simply because as an issue that impacts our customers, it&rsquo;s our issue,&rdquo; Bell spokesman Paolo Pasquini said via email. &ldquo;You could call it a &lsquo;he said/she said&rsquo; situation if you equate a 134 yr old Canadian company, publicly traded, subject to various laws on disclosure by a range of regulators, which issued a formal statement on the matter on a national disclosure newswire&hellip; with a group of unnamed/ unknown individuals with no clear operating structures at all. We do not.&quot;</p>
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&quot;We continue to work with the supplier as well as law enforcement and government security officials to investigate. As noted, Bell&rsquo;s own network and IT systems were not impacted.&quot;</p>
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<em>Photo via <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626351447384411&amp;set=pb.202220023130891.-2207520000.1391468803.&amp;type=3&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-frc3%2Ft1%2F1044037_626351447384411_277545134_n.jpg&amp;size=800%2C472">Bell Canada/Facebook</a> (remix by Fernando Alfonso III)&nbsp;</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:15:26 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/crime/bell-canada-nullcrew-password-hack/CrimeCould this 'patriot' hacker's new app swing the Bitcoin markets his way?http://www.dailydot.com/business/jester-patriot-hacker-bitcoin-bud-android-app/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/52/dd/52dd7849ee7ede872d21be5709e5228a.jpg'></p><p class="p1">
Self-styled &quot;patriot hacker&quot; <a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/the-jester/"><span class="s1">the Jester</span></a> is probably the most famous pro-government hacker in the world. His Twitter bio boasts &quot;Proud infidel, hacktivist for good. Pro pitier of fools. Bitcoin trader &amp; developer of &#39;Bitcoin Bud&#39; for Android. My laptop is in International Spy Museum, DC.&quot;&nbsp;</p>
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I spoke to the Jester via encrypted chat about his latest accomplishment, Bitcoin Bud, a <a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/bitcoin/"><span class="s1">Bitcoin</span></a> price tracker that comes with a built-in feed of trades the Jester himself is making, in real time.</p>
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Previously, he has focused on psychological operations, propaganda, and pro-government hacking. His hacking or DDoS targets include WikiLeaks, every country that has <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/04/patriot_hacker_takes_aim_snowden_asylum_candidates/"><span class="s1">offered asylum to Edward Snowden,</span></a> the <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/westboro-baptist-church-hack-oklahoma/"><span class="s1">Westboro Baptist Church</span></a>, the <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/wikileaks-attacked-the-jester-smedley-manning/"><span class="s1">Pirate Bay</span></a>, and the <span class="s1"><a href="http://www.tripolipost.com/"><i>Tripoli Post</i>.</a></span></p>
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Now, he wants to be the most famous pro-government hacker turned Bitcoin app developer in the world, as well.</p>
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In a Jan. 19 blog post, the Jester, a longtime Bitcoin aficionado, announced that he had <a href="http://jesterscourt.cc/2014/01/19/bitcoin-bud-realtime-trading-signals/"><span class="s1">released an app for Android</span></a>, one which would track the price of Bitcoin across several different markets.&nbsp;</p>
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The Jester himself claims to have done pretty well in Bitcoin by betting against the U.S. dollar and then selling once the seesaw tips to the other direction.</p>
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&quot;I was an early adopter. Saw the benefits of it early on, maybe 3 years ago. So started playing with it. Then I started to talk about it on my Twitter and other places and people were asking me all about &#39;What is Bitcoin?&#39; or do I get involved, etc. I personally like the volatility of the market, and since a few exchanges have popped up I have been swing trading Bitcoin against the dollar.&quot;</p>
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Right now, Bitcoin Bud is Android-only, but an iOS version might be in the works, depending on Apple&#39;s next moves.&nbsp;</p>
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&quot;I notice lots of folks are asking for an iOS version but Apple are removing Bitcoin apps from the app store allegedly. I think it must compete with an upcoming product they may be developing themselves or something. So for now its Android only.&quot;</p>
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As for how the Jester registered the appwithout revealing his real identity&mdash;something many have tried and failed to discern over the years&mdash;he wouldn&#39;t give details, but did say it was all above-board and legal.&nbsp;</p>
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&quot;Yes, these things require a real person to comply with tax and other regulations. I have that covered. Legally. No comment on how I am protecting myself. But be advised, I am protecting myself.&rdquo;</p>
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Are there any exploits in Bitcoin Bud?</p>
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&quot;Absolutely none. I wouldn&#39;t put a paid app out there if I was trying to exploit. A free one maybe, but not a paid, hopefully useful, service,&quot; the Jester said.</p>
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And does the app actually allow people to trade or exchange bitcoins?&nbsp;</p>
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&quot;No ma&#39;am. I am not opening myself up to that. It simply allows people a window on to my movements on the markets. I don&#39;t want to add any in-app financial transactional functionality.&quot;</p>
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There are already <a href="https://play.google.com/store/search?q=bitcoin%20prices&amp;c=apps"><span class="s1">hundreds</span></a> of Bitcoin price tracking apps in the Google Play store, so why this one? Why now, when he&#39;s been in the Bitcoin market for years? He says it&#39;s because so many people want to know what he&#39;s doing on the market, so they can follow along.&nbsp;</p>
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&quot;&lsquo;Bitcoin Bud&rsquo; for Android is directly linked to my &lsquo;JayTrader&rsquo; server, which is in turn linked to the 3 major Bitcoin exchanges (<a href="http://mtgox.com/"><span class="s1">MtGox</span></a>,<a href="http://btc-e.com/"> <span class="s1">BTCe</span></a> and<a href="http://bitstamp.net/"> <span class="s1">Bitstamp</span></a>) via their API&rsquo;s for realtime price data. It&rsquo;s like having me in your pocket. Every time I make a move on the Bitcoin Markets, you will know about it <i>live</i> with a notification on your device.&quot;</p>
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&quot;I&#39;ve been trading a while now and the app just gives real time notifications when I make a move on their Android device. They can choose to follow or not. I&#39;m just allowing people to see what I am up to in real time. There are no ads or in-app payments. It isn&#39;t a wallet or an app that will make a trade, either. It&#39;s literally a trading signals provider. Given what I am known for, I wouldn&#39;t create an app that required any financials from people. I don&#39;t think it would float too well.&quot;</p>
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It&#39;s also uni-directional, giving users up-to-the-minute information on Bitcoin and the Jester&#39;s trades, but giving him nothing (except $4.36) in return. &quot;I get zero information about the user. Google handles the payment for the app through the Play Store&mdash;the app is meant to help people, nothing more.&quot;</p>
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So it&#39;s a price comparison app that compares only three markets, but also interposes a live feed of what the Jester himself is trading, so that you can get in on it. He freely admits that part of the point of the app is to enable this broadcast effect, amplifying any swings in the market in the direction he wants.&nbsp;</p>
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If Bitcoin were traded on a federally regulated exchange, this would be governed by law, but because Bitcoin remains largely unregulated, it&#39;s perfectly kosher. The Jester is also doing what is called &quot;front-running,&quot; getting the best price for buying Bitcoin, then informing his followers, who are welcome to dive in and buy after that, driving the price up. Once the price is high enough, the Jester sells out. When he sells, they presumably all sell too, driving the price back down and creating a buying opportunity for the Jester and his followers, ad infinitum.&nbsp;</p>
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That, too, is something that is given the side-eye on stock exchanges, although <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/goldman-admits-frontrunning-clients-through-its-prop-desk"><span class="s1">common enough in practice</span></a>.&nbsp;</p>
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A Bitcoin trader I spoke with at <a href="http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/wp/"><span class="s1">Vancouver Hackspace </span></a>told me that a mere $5,000 would be enough to control the market for Bitcoin in Canada, and that the U.S. market would be similarly vulnerable, although presumably ten times as expensive. With enough money and enough investors on your team, you could presumably set your own price for Bitcoin.&nbsp;</p>
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That, the Jester cautions, is premature at this point. &quot;That may be a side-effect if MILLIONS of people were to use it and follow it. It&#39;s more in response to people asking me all about Bitcoin. Instead of trying to tell them, I decided to create the app to SHOW them, kinda like putting my mouth where my money is so to speak&hellip;&quot;</p>
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On the question of whether there was an arbitrage to be done across various markets, taking advantage of the difference in price between various Bitcoin markets, the Jester said, &quot;I think there&#39;s definitely room to play arbitrage across the markets, but to make it worthwhile you&#39;d have to pump &#39;n dump high volumes back and forth. I mean <i>really</i> high volumes.&quot;</p>
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Truly, it&#39;s elegant.&nbsp;</p>
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&quot;I figured if people use it, the signals become a self-fulfilling prophecy,&quot; he explained. &quot;It&rsquo;s the age-old supply and demand rule right? More people buy, price goes up, more people sell, price goes down.&quot;</p>
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As for the JayTrader platform which he claims to have invented, it is not a fully-formed trading platform, but works just fine as an automated tracker for his personal account.</p>
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&quot;The app itself didn&#39;t take long at all [to develop] but the JayTrader system that powers it behind the scenes was &#39;a challenge&#39;. Thats the server that makes the decisions, detects market conditions and feeds the app the buy/sell signals.&quot;</p>
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&quot;JayTrader looks at 3 markets as a whole and watches for the conditions to be right for a move; when it detects this it pushes out signals to the Android App. People don&#39;t have to follow the signals, I&#39;m merely showing what I am doing. nothing more. It&#39;s not doing too badly so far. I can set it to either just send out a signal or execute a trade. Right now, like I said, I&#39;m putting my mouth where my money is, so it executes for me too. You&#39;ll notice the signal does not include the volume in dollars or Bitcoin that I am trading. I am not foreseeing a time when I will disable trade execution.&quot;</p>
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&ldquo;I have multiple wallets, my personal trading wallets are not publicly known. But if you are looking to see if the App is accurate, it&#39;s really easy to see from within it, there&#39;s a 10 trade history of everything.&rdquo;</p>
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As to the future, he has his eye on the entire digital currency market: &quot;If this version of the app for Bitcoin is a hit, I&#39;ll definitely expand it to other cryptocurrencies.&quot;</p>
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<strong>Correction:&nbsp;</strong>A previous version of this story contained assertions about hacking tools the Jester has worked on. The Daily Dot was unable to verify their accuracy and, as such, they have been removed from the story.&nbsp;We regret the error.</p>
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<i>Photo via </i><a href="http://imgur.com/2uApbvM"><span class="s1"><i>the Jester</i></span></a><i>/Imgur</i></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:29:57 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/business/jester-patriot-hacker-bitcoin-bud-android-app/BusinessWhy Anonymous is going to war with British higher educationhttp://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-opphdpounds-uk-ministry-defense/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/6c/a6/6ca627ecd6b5b6c5ab330067dd650e85.jpg'></p><p>
When the British newspaper the<em>&nbsp;Guardian</em>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/07/ministry-defence-fund-research-online">reported Jan. 7</a>&nbsp;that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was funding university research into&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/anonymous.">Anonymous</a>, hacktivism, and surveillance (and had been for at least a year), it was only a matter of time before someone, somewhere in the hacker collective took retaliatory action.</p>
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Within about four hours of the article&rsquo;s publication,&nbsp;<a href="http://paste.meowstars.org/?4d816ee472c04ecd#Vy8nnCguS4NQ0oInnFjCAN+lwBc3L348OmwLsF0V8EA=">#OpPhDPounds</a>&nbsp;was on. It&rsquo;s an Anonymous action that targets U.K. universities studying cyberwar, even at arm&rsquo;s length. It&rsquo;s been in stealth mode for almost two weeks as the Anons attempted to gather intel.</p>
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The hackivists have zeroed in on&nbsp;<a href="http://www.qmul.ac.uk/">Queen Mary University of London</a>&nbsp;and one of the institution&rsquo;s researchers, a specialist in nanotechnology, in particular, releasing a couple of potentially embarrassing lists and&nbsp;<a href="https://cryptobin.org/d2x85334">internal communications</a>.</p>
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But there&rsquo;s a larger, more threatening action in the works.</p>
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&quot;[We] plan on stirring things up over the universities taking MoD cash for invasive research,&rdquo; one of the team members, with whom I was already familiar from previous hacks, told me via encrypted chat. &ldquo;I am going to release basically their own map of their network, with all of the IPs and Mac addresses of every computer on their network.&quot;</p>
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Queen Mary&#39;s University <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23hacked&amp;src=hash">#hacked</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23leaked&amp;src=hash">#leaked</a> for <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpPhD&amp;src=hash">#OpPhD</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MoD&amp;src=hash">#MoD</a> funded research threatens net freedoms | <a href="http://t.co/YWOTGGRPJT">http://t.co/YWOTGGRPJT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a></p>
&mdash; Anonymous (@blackplans) <a href="https://twitter.com/blackplans/statuses/425101210354319361">January 20, 2014</a></blockquote>
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On Jan. 19, they did exactly that, in a combination&nbsp;<a href="http://paste.meowstars.org/?4d816ee472c04ecd#Vy8nnCguS4NQ0oInnFjCAN+lwBc3L348OmwLsF0V8EA=">press release/dox</a>&nbsp;that went live over the weekend at ZeroBin, a sort of self-destructing document delivery system. In one year, the document will be erased. They allegedly mapped the entire university computer network, identifying each computer and each Internet connection. It&#39;s analogous to having the blueprints to a bank.</p>
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That information could be used in a distributed denial of service (<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/ddos/">DDoS</a>) attack to target the specific university machines. In such a case, the website would likely remain up, but the individual computers on the university system&mdash;the ones used by the staff and students&mdash;could become inoperable. No damage would be done to their contents, but they could be frozen as long as they remained connected to the Internet and the subject of attacks.</p>
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DDoS is the most likely form of attack, as it is easy, cheap, and standard operating procedure for Anonymous, but other, more malicious or longer-lasting hacks are also certainly possible given.</p>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">The hackers claim &nbsp;they also have data from the human resources department, grades, evaluations, and personal details, of which I have been shown only a small selection. The hacker told me, &quot;Bear in mind we do not plan on releasing much that will identify individual students, but we could if we wanted to.&quot;</span></p>
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As for the motivation, Anonymous aims to draw attention to data insecurity in the institutions entrusted with MoD grants for security projects and research. &quot;It&rsquo;s obvious,&quot; said our source, careful to note that this was an international effort, not specific to the U.K. &quot;The institution is woefully underprepared for the kind of attention working with the Ministry of Defense can cause. If we are on their systems, anyone else could be as well.&quot;</p>
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The hacker also claimed that they still have access to Queen Mary&#39;s systems on an ongoing basis.</p>
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&quot;They want to analyze data on the net, while their own data is woefully unsecured.&rdquo;</p>
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<strong>Update:&nbsp;</strong>A spokesperson for Queen Mary University told the Daily Dot, &quot;We are investigating the claims. We have informed the police.&quot;</p>
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<em>Photo via&nbsp;</em><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/augmentation/"><em>Hayes MKII</em></a><em>/Flickr</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:34:20 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-opphdpounds-uk-ministry-defense/NewsHow 10 Shiba Inus made it to the top of a super-sketchy hottie-rating sitehttp://www.dailydot.com/unclick/girls-on-map-shiba-inu/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/25/27/2527e9c190dedc222c4f84abc4a92557.jpg'></p><p class="p1">
On the one hand, crowdsourcing is a great way to source tons of free content for your website. On the other, there&rsquo;s a thin line between a crowd and a mob.&nbsp;</p>
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The dudebros at sexytime-vacation mapping site <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/girls-on-map-vacation/"><span class="s1">GirlsOnAMap</span></a> must have thought they had the idea of a lifetime when they realized they could get their own users to upload pictures, locations, and other identifying information about various girls, and for awhile (a short while) it actually worked that way.</p>
<p class="p1">
The site, designed as a sort of <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/girls-on-map-vacation/"><span class="s1">vacation planning tool for straight men looking for straight girls</span></a> (as opposed to straight boys looking for straight women), asks its users to upload pictures of hot girls (&quot;18+ only!&quot; it says). It offers Facebook integration, for those who would rather steal women&#39;s photos directly off their own profiles than upload them from their own computers.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
&quot;Connect with Facebook,&quot; it trumpets, &quot;so we can keep track of your ratings.&quot; It also says &quot;100% anonymous,&quot; so I&#39;m not sure how that works.</p>
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There&#39;s a space to add your own tips about the woman and/or location, and then you pin it to the map, tail-on-donkey style. You can also vote in polls like &quot;How down [tf] are the girls?&quot; Currently there is nowhere on the map that has more than six girls listed.</p>
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The &quot;<a href="http://www.girlsonamap.com/make-money-while-partying-pub-crawl"><span class="s1">Make money partying</span></a>&quot; section of the site is interesting. You can rent yourself out as a wingman or host a pub crawl for sex-starved touristbros where, presumably, you will use the Map to find the Girls.</p>
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So far, so douche.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
Then one day media manager Jane Ruffino of Dublin infographic creator startup <a href="http://getbulb.com/"><span class="s1">GetBulb</span></a> noticed them and recognized misogyny in action. She saw an opportunity in the crowdsourcing, and she went for it, big time.&nbsp;</p>
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As detailed in a Jan. 17 <a href="https://medium.com/futures-exchange/5acfe0a32783"><span class="s1">article on Medium</span></a>, Ruffino used Facebook to encourage her contacts to upload pictures of cute dogs in sweaters to the site, pup-bombing it and rendering it useless as a sex prospecting site.&nbsp;</p>
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Hi, this is the worst startup idea ever on the planet so far. Please help everyone on earth who is a human by uploading pics of cute animals in sweaters because I think we could at least turn it into a geolocated &quot;puppy street style&quot; thing.</p>
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DRESSED UP DOGS ARE WAITING AT THE PET DOOR TO GO FOR A WALK WITH YOU. CALL NOW</p>
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Because the site relies on submissions from the public, it was unable to detect or stop the inundation, and was soon awash in photos of&mdash;literally&mdash; hot bitches.</p>
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That&#39;s when someone reached out to tell Ruffino that her own photo was on the site, and that she was ranked a mere 4.2.</p>
<blockquote>
<p class="p3">
I did not respond politely, nor should I have.</p>
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<span class="s2">I mailed them and demanded that they take it down, and then my lawyer stepped in.<a href="https://twitter.com/GirlsOnAMap/status/423575203201830913">&nbsp;<span class="s3">The bros immediately tone-policed me on twitter, but I know when to pass things off to someone whose job it is to deal with them.</span></a></span></p>
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The founder gave Ruffino the old &quot;I&#39;m a feminist&quot; routine, to which she responded by referring them to her lawyer. Her picture is now gone. In fact, according to the site, <a href="http://www.girlsonamap.com/what-are-girls-like/ireland/dublin/dublin"><span class="s1">there are no girls in Dublin at all</span></a> (although if there were, they would be moderately easy).</p>
<p class="p1">
Once the tweets had flown, the other feminist pup-uploaders went into hyperdrive. For a brief, glorious period the &quot;Hottest Girls in the World,&quot; a row of pictures selected by software using the poll results, were all exactly the same picture of <a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/doge/"><span class="s1">Doge</span></a>, the world&#39;s favorite Shiba Inu meme.</p>
<p class="p1">
I bet they&#39;d be down for some heavy petting.</p>
<p class="p1" style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2014/1/22/skitched-20140121-173738.png"><img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2014/1/22/skitched-20140121-173738.png" style="width: 600px; height: 216px;" /></a></p>
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In her article, Ruffino explained that she had no tolerance for self-labeled feminists who are responsible for &quot;rapey bullshit,&quot; and that the solution wasn&#39;t for women and feminists to avoid misogynistic sites altogether; the solution was to mock those sites with their own weapons, exactly as the doggy initiative had done.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
&quot;It isn&rsquo;t the rating system, it&rsquo;s the way that they are trying to build a roving gang of sexual privateers and make it easy for stalkers and violent dudes to humiliate, frighten, or endanger women. Telling us to log off is basically telling us to stop existing.&quot;</p>
<p class="p1">
Ruffino says that in this case, the good guys won. The site, however, is still online, and still showing a number of pictures that are clearly taken from women&#39;s Facebook profiles, presumably without consent. These photos are then provided to the users of GirlsOnAMap as sexual destinations, complete with tips and ratings out of 10. Once you add in the pub crawl service, you start to get something that looks like a one-stop shop for stalking.</p>
<p class="p1">
Maybe someone should upload some guard dogs.</p>
<p class="p5">
<i>Photo via <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76758469@N00/6073282904/in/photolist-afFaqd-afFaDG-afFatf-afCoAH-aZnfS8-aZneFP-aZnfiH-cEwST5-ayXGVL-ayXGZ3-ayV3VZ-ayV3P8-dXjTmD-dXpE7E-dXpECy-dXiZL8-dXjT54-afFazm-7Yq3a8-bwLcNk-h25ENq-bWR1bN-a6ugHr-ayXH8w-ayV49t-ayV3Lp-ayXGRb-ayV3HH-ayXHjG-ayV434-ayXH4Y-7z5nRn-dXjTdr-dXqy2f-dXjSN8-dXjSWr-dXiZCr-dsdt1M-dXjSBe-dsdBdj-achBhA-achE57-achJ4f-achGVw-aceNiM-btCXzz-ak4xhU-dXj19k-dXiZTp-ebuHrg-ebuHPT">yuyatamai</a>/Flickr</i></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:39:22 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/unclick/girls-on-map-shiba-inu/UnclickAnonymous's #OpFullerton seeks justice for Kelly Thomashttp://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-opfullerton-kelly-thomas/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/49/15/49156ef84c2507d47778b12c6e1d0c3f.jpg'></p><p>
Kelly Thomas lived alone on the streets of Fullerton, Calif., homeless and schizophrenic. He died at the UC Irvine Medical Center on July 10, 2011, having been in a coma for five days. It was the result of a brutal beating, which was caught on video. During the course of the assault, Thomas pled for his life over 100 times. In May of 2012, Thomas&rsquo;s mother was&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AnonyNewsNet/status/422947179876352000">awarded $1 million</a>&nbsp;in compensation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>
Two and a half years later, on Jan. 13, 2014, the men who assaulted Thomas were acquitted in court. Almost instantly&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23opfullerton&amp;src=typd">#OpFullerton</a> began.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
This is what a police state looks like: <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23KellyThomas&amp;src=hash">#KellyThomas</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpFullerton&amp;src=hash">#OpFullerton</a> <a href="http://t.co/cHM6p1gCf5">pic.twitter.com/cHM6p1gCf5</a></p>
&mdash; Occupy Congress (@OCongress) <a href="https://twitter.com/OCongress/statuses/424707106969620481">January 19, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p>
Those men? They are former Fullerton Police Department officers Manuel Ramos, Jay Cicinelli, Joseph Wolfe. They were fired. And now&nbsp;<a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/anonymous/">Anonymous</a>&nbsp;is hunting them.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/84547844?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=cccccc" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe></p>
<p>
<br />
The policemen have been thoroughly doxed by Anonymous activists, down to their wives&rsquo; maiden names. Anons have been spreading the information both <a href="http://pastebin.com/ZueTSahZ">on Pastebin</a> and as JPGs to get around search engines, which might detect the contents and potentially cause social networks to censor them. Even <a href="https://twitter.com/YourAnonCentral/status/423262715847901184">the jurors were identified</a>, their photos were passed around on Twitter.</p>
<p>
Anonymous even began <a href="https://twitter.com/rebeccablumer/status/425447957983268864">leaving Facebook messages</a> on the profile belonging to the daughter of the police chief.</p>
<p>
The website of the Fullerton Police was also <a href="http://hackread.com/anonymous-takes-down-fullerton-police-website-against-arrest/">taken offline by an attack</a>, presumably <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack">DDoS</a>. No permanent damage was done and the offline time was not extensive. At press time, the attacks have resumed and have taken the target sites offline again.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpFullerton&amp;src=hash">#OpFullerton</a> FIRE---&gt; <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23www&amp;src=hash">#www</a>.ci.fullerton.ca.us <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23www&amp;src=hash">#www</a>.fullertonpolicenews.com <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23www&amp;src=hash">#www</a>.police.fullerton.edu <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23www&amp;src=hash">#www</a>.cityoffullerton.com</p>
&mdash; Nemesys (@AnxnLeg) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnxnLeg/statuses/425392524765560832">January 20, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p>
Thomas didn&#39;t have an army at his back the night he was killed, but now <a href="https://twitter.com/KellysArmy">#KellysArmy</a> has appeared. On Saturday, Jan. 18, hundreds of activists staged a live protest outside the police department in Fullerton. According to the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fullerton-kelly-thomas-protest-arrests-20140119,0,2019983.story#axzz2qy9VTvU8">at least 14 people were arrested</a>, primarily for &quot;failing to disperse.&quot; Protesters chalked the sidewalk with slogans, interrupted traffic, and waved signs. Some staged a silent protest.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
I love this pic he did not move a muscle for at least 10 minutes.. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Justice4Kelly&amp;src=hash">#Justice4Kelly</a> <a href="http://t.co/FWskBDDeRY">pic.twitter.com/FWskBDDeRY</a></p>
&mdash; MsG (@MsGordo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MsGordo/statuses/424803828249014272">January 19, 2014</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Justice4Kelly&amp;src=hash">#Justice4Kelly</a> <a href="http://t.co/TeATSilVs9">pic.twitter.com/TeATSilVs9</a></p>
&mdash; MsG (@MsGordo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MsGordo/statuses/424744404817948673">January 19, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p>
On Twitter, both #KellysArmy and #OpFullerton are in use, although the latter is outpulling the former by <a href="http://topsy.com/analytics?q1=%23OpFullerton&amp;via=Topsy">a factor of 20</a>. Dedicated Twitter accounts like <a href="https://twitter.com/KellysArmy">@Kellysarmy</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/HelpKelly">@HelpKelly</a> are spreading information and gaining followers, as copwatch groups and activists join the movement. The hashtag <a href="http://topsy.com/analytics?q1=%23KellyThomas&amp;via=Topsy">#KellyThomas</a> peaked on the 13th at over 30,000 tweets, trending nationally and indicating that it&#39;s not just Anonymous who is taking an interest in this case. All three hashtags are still in use.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
City Council meeting is Tuesday @ 6 PM. Commonwealth Ave, next to the Fullerton PD. Please Bring &amp; Show them your RAMOS GLOVES <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23KellyThomas&amp;src=hash">#KellyThomas</a></p>
&mdash; Kelly Thomas Justice (@KellysArmy) <a href="https://twitter.com/KellysArmy/statuses/425367484124770304">January 20, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p>
The &quot;Ramos gloves&quot; refer to the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/verdict-reached-calif-police-homeless-death-21520031">plastic gloves Ramos donned</a> before telling Thomas, &quot;Now see my fists? They&#39;re getting ready to fuck you up.&quot;</p>
<p>
Thomas&#39;s father has <a href="http://pastebin.com/P3JZQafn">released a statement</a> about the planned protest at City Hall on Tuesday. He urges calm and says, &quot;Chief Hughes has made it very clear publicly that he WILL NOT reverse his decision as to the termination of Ramos, Cicinelli, and Wolfe. In other words, he will NOT rehire them. I do not see a reason to go into this meeting mad as hell at the City Council as they were not part of the jury. I am asking that concerned citizens attend and voice their opinions, but none of us need violence to get our points across to the council.&quot;</p>
<p>
In the meantime, the Fullerton Police have closed their public information desk.&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
Scared to face the mob of angry citizens after this travesty? <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23opfullerton&amp;src=hash">#opfullerton</a> Scared brah? <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> Just starting... <a href="http://t.co/EvdMoXPeLv">pic.twitter.com/EvdMoXPeLv</a></p>
&mdash; ANONYMOUS (@anonsoldier503) <a href="https://twitter.com/anonsoldier503/statuses/425226827645218816">January 20, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p>
It&#39;s uncertain how many protesters will manifest on Tuesday night, but given the increasing media attention paid to the case, it is likely to be a larger crowd than Saturday&#39;s gathering. Whether they finally achieve what they consider to be justice for Kelly Thomas, or for the tens of thousands like him across America, remains to be seen. But the army has mobilized.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
I got filthy <a href="http://t.co/C4YlFvFlkG">pic.twitter.com/C4YlFvFlkG</a></p>
&mdash; cassandra (@CassandraRules) <a href="https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/statuses/424782712990203904">January 19, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p>
<em>Photo via <a href="http://senovan.deviantart.com/art/Anonymous-Wallpaper-256646573">Senovan</a>/deviantART</em></p>
<p>
<em>Correction: This article originally reported that Thomas died at UC Davis Medical Center. He died at UC Irvine.</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:09:06 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-opfullerton-kelly-thomas/AnonymousNewsAnonymous supporters face caning for graffitihttp://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-singapore-op-malaysia-caning-graffiti-the-messiah/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/6a/12/6a1276a94b9110f8751e1df87dcbf424.jpg'></p><p>
Five men who graffitied a wall in Singapore with pro-Anonymous graffiti are now facing years in prison, thousands of dollars in fines, and lashings with a cane.</p>
<p>
The men, all Malaysians in their early- to mid-twenties, may have been inspired to action by &quot;The Messiah,&quot; aka James Raj Arokiasamy, 35, a famous Malaysian hacker and prominent proponent of what&#39;s known as <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-singapore-philippines-million-mask-march/">#OpMalaysia</a> in Anonymous circles. Arokiasamy was arrested in early November for hacks against a local&nbsp;town council and a blog of the&nbsp;<em>The Straits Times</em>&nbsp;newspaper, among others.</p>
<p>
Launched that same month, #OpMalaysia called on citizens to &quot;paint the streets with the colors that represent the current Singaporeans emotion,&quot; i.e., black and red.&nbsp;</p>
<p>
It seems the five arrested for graffiti took that call literally. On the ramp outside of the headquarters of <a href="http://www.scape.com.sg/">Scape</a>, an organization dedicated to fostering leadership among youth, two of them allegedly wrote: &quot;WE R ONE WE R LEGION WE DO NOT WE DO NOT FORGIVE WE DO NOT FORGET EXCEPT US! TSK&quot; &quot;Tsk.&quot;&nbsp;</p>
<p>
Others <a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/case-against-anonymous-vandals-fixed-pre-trial-conference-jan-7-201312">painted graffiti </a>&nbsp;at Sunshine Plaza with a similar message.</p>
<p>
The men now face fines of up to $2,000, a possible two to three years in jail, plus three to eight lashes from a cane for each offence. &nbsp;Bail for each is $15,000, which was paid, and the trials will begin Jan. 22. Police have already clarified that there was&nbsp;<a href="https://traxarmstrong.com/hacker-vandals-targeting-singaporean-websites-arrested/">no formal link</a>&nbsp;between the arrestees and Arokiasamy.</p>
<p>
On Jan. 16, Anonymous publishe a <a href="http://pastebin.com/9uNsnW8A">a press release</a> on Pastebin, dubbing the group &quot;The Singapore Five&quot; and demanding their release.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
Tell <a href="https://twitter.com/MFAsg">@mfaSG</a> that <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> won&#39;t stand for anons being beaten in <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Singapore&amp;src=hash">#Singapore</a>. Please spread: <a href="http://t.co/ryAyO5WxKy">http://t.co/ryAyO5WxKy</a> <a href="http://t.co/DJHQvCZpUP">pic.twitter.com/DJHQvCZpUP</a></p>
&mdash; Anonymous (@blackplans) <a href="https://twitter.com/blackplans/statuses/425096625560625152">January 20, 2014</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<p>
&quot;Only in a country as authoritarian as Singapore would corporal punishment and years in prison seem a reasonable sentence for an act of civil disobedience that harmed nobody,&quot; the release said.</p>
<p>
Michael Fay, the infamous American teen sentenced in the &#39;90s to four lashes, claims to have suffered PTSD as a result of the process. <em>The New York Times </em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/06/world/singapore-carries-out-the-caning-of-a-us-teen-ager.html">reporting on his case</a>&nbsp;in 1994, described the physical ordeal of caning:&nbsp;&quot;People who have undergone a caning say it results in heavy bleeding and permanent scars and is usually so painful that the prisoners go into shock.&quot;</p>
<p>
<em>Image via </em><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/posterboynyc/6050117154/"><em>Poster Boy NYC</em></a><em>/Flickr</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:48:30 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-singapore-op-malaysia-caning-graffiti-the-messiah/NewsAnonymous tries to put a stop to black rhino hunt with #OpFunKillhttp://www.dailydot.com/news/opfunkill-anonymous-black-rhino-hunt-namibia/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/7e/7c/7e7c11338f338d9e45569851b239a5f0.jpg'></p><p class="p1">
&quot;The more you kill, the rarer it gets!&quot;&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
That wry comment about big game hunting came to us from noted naturalist and Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert back in October. He was commenting on the <a href="http://biggame.org/"><span class="s1">Dallas Safari Club</span></a>&#39;s intention to <a href="http://biggame.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Donations-as-of-10-14-13-All-2-Donations-as-of-10-14-13-All.pdf"><span class="s1">auction off the chance to shoot an endangered black rhinoceros</span></a> in Namibia.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
The auction went ahead on January 11, watched by <a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/anonymous/">Anonymous</a>&#39;s <a href="http://operationfunkill.org/intel/press-release/"><span class="s1">#OpFunKill</span></a>, which opposes shooting animals for entertainment, as well as animal rights activists around the world. They countered the online auction with hacks of Namibian websites, doxing of club members, a YouTube video and <a href="http://operationfunkill.org/intel/press-release/"><span class="s1">press release</span></a>, and a <span class="s1"><a href="http://topsy.com/analytics?q1=%23DSCKillsBlackRhino&amp;via=Topsy">tweetstorm</a></span>&nbsp;focused on the hashtag #DSCKillsBlackRhino.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="365" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ou1kJzMjVJE?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="630"></iframe></p>
<p class="p1">
&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
RT - EMERGENCY BROADCAST !! Ronnie the Rhino&#39;s life is UP FOR AUCTION JAN 11TH <a href="https://twitter.com/DallasSafariClb">@DallasSafariClb</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpFunKill&amp;src=hash">#OpFunKill</a> <a href="http://t.co/yWh56evN29">pic.twitter.com/yWh56evN29</a></p>
&mdash; #OpFunKill (@OpFunKill) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpFunKill/statuses/419319334851190784">January 4, 2014</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
We are targeting Namibia websites for allowing the auction of endangered Rhinos NBC Namibia <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TANGODOWN&amp;src=hash">#TANGODOWN</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpFunKill&amp;src=hash">#OpFunKill</a> <a href="http://t.co/vwro9wbUgU">pic.twitter.com/vwro9wbUgU</a>&rdquo;</p>
&mdash; #OpFunKill (@OpFunKill) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpFunKill/statuses/419711066680328192">January 5, 2014</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
Worlds largest supply of American Made Outdoor gear for Hunting! JUST GOT BUTTHURT <a href="http://t.co/qdBfy3gRd5">http://t.co/qdBfy3gRd5</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpFunKill&amp;src=hash">#OpFunKill</a></p>
&mdash; #OpFunKill (@OpFunKill) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpFunKill/statuses/420188268286971904">January 6, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p class="p1">
That hack was an epilepsy-inducing strobing <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Anonymous-Threatens-Government-of-Namibia-over-Black-Rhino-Hunt-Video-414031-3.png/"><span class="s1">deface featuring characters from My Little Pony</span></a>. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we have reached <i>Terror Alert: Brony</i>.</p>
<p class="p1">
According to Softpedia, the website for <a href="http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=7735&amp;page_type=story_detail"><span class="s1">a Namibian independent newspaper</span></a> <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Launch-DDOS-Attack-on-Namibian-Government-Portal-in-OpFunKill-414769.shtml?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter"><span class="s1">was among the victims</span></a> of #OpFunKill supporters, although the operatives took to social media to clarify that in that case, it was an Anon going rogue. &quot;Apologies to all for a couple of unofficial targets being attacked in the name of #OpFunKill by one unofficial member going off on his own! We do not attack non related, non governmental, or news sites! All our official targets are valid and justifiable. Do not tag us!&quot;</p>
<p class="p2">
The <i>Namibian</i> <a href="http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=7735&amp;page_type=story_detail"><span class="s1">responded dryly on its own site</span></a>. &quot;Namibian newspaper online editor Johnathan Beukes said it is unfortunate that this group does not know the difference between a government and an iconic independent newspaper.&quot; The paper has the bad luck to share the .na domain with the government, which brought it into Anonymous&#39; sights.</p>
<p class="p1">
The tweetstorm itself was tightly planned, with the hashtag itself not revealed until <a href="http://pastebin.com/NNQtt9Hn"><span class="s1">posted in a Pastebin document</span></a> just prior to the event, ensuring nobody would jump the gun (as it were). The document says:</p>
<blockquote>
<p class="p1">
The &quot;meme&quot; that&#39;s propagated by the DSC - A Trophy Hunting &quot;outfit&quot; is that killing one can save many. This is - bluntly - sheer nonsense. TROPHY HUNTING IS NOT CONSERVATION: learn more here: <a href="http://on.fb.me/1euEdGi"><span class="s1">http://on.fb.me/1euEdGi</span></a> (The Myth of Trophy Hunting As Conservation).</p>
</blockquote>
<p class="p4">
Wildlife experts estimate about 5,000 black rhinos roam the wilds of Africa, 1,795 of them in Namibia, where the auction hunt will take place. The Convention on International Trade has approved a sport-hunting quota of five black rhinos annually in Namibia and five in South Africa. Permits are typically issued to a safari outfitter, who sells them to hunting clients.</p>
<p class="p1">
The tweetstorm peaked at just over 19,000 tweets, more than enough to trend internationally and catch the eye of the press. The <a href="http://topsy.com/analytics?q1=%23opfunkill&amp;via=Topsy"><span class="s1">hashtag #OpFunKill</span></a> threw in another 3,000 tweets that day for good measure.</p>
<p class="p1">
Although the auction plans first surfaced back in October of 2013, they only recently drew international attention, helped to the front page by the recent woes of the white rhino, declared extinct only days ago.&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/raincoaster">@raincoaster</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dailydot">@dailydot</a> Yes and it was also reported on <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCNews">@BBCNews</a>. The tweet storm was phenomenal. <a href="http://t.co/vJ7kkNPWLn">pic.twitter.com/vJ7kkNPWLn</a></p>
&mdash; #OpFunKill (@OpFunKill) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpFunKill/statuses/422703547503747073">January 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p class="p1">
The black rhino at the center of this storm, an older male dubbed &quot;Ronnie the Rhino&quot; by anthropomorphist activists, is reportedly past breeding age and thus not able to contribute to his species&#39; propagation. He is, however, currently both endangered and alive, adding &quot;1&quot; to the number of endangered black rhinos (<a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/09/22241242-dallas-safari-club-calls-in-fbi-after-death-threats-over-rhino-hunt-auction"><span class="s1">estimated at 4,000</span></a>) and bringing us back to Colbert&#39;s remarks.</p>
<p class="p1">
The winning bidder, whose identity was kept confidential by the club, forked over $350,000 for the privilege of shooting Ronnie. He is reportedly a hunter guide named Corey Knowlton, who was outed by a loose-lipped rival on Facebook and then <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2537833/Dallas-Safari-Club-auctions-permit-HUNT-endangered-black-rhino-Africa-says-money-rhino-CONSERVATION.html"><span class="s1">featured in an article in the Daily Mail</span></a>. Knowlton&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Corey-Knowlton/123992287648317"><span class="s1">public Facebook page</span></a> shows the effects; there are over a thousand comments on his latest post, a plea for reasoned and unemotional discussion. The fingered leaker, however, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/doublediamondoutfitters/posts/10202848086900125?stream_ref=10"><span class="s1">strenuously denies</span></a> having made the post in the first place. Presumably Mr. Knowlton possesses the skills to track down the true culprit. He posted:</p>
<blockquote>
<p class="p1">
&quot;I am considering all sides and concerns involved in this unique situation. Please don&#39;t rush to judgment with emotionally driven criticism towards individuals on either sides of this issue. I deeply care about all of the inhabitants of this planet and I am looking forward to more educated discussion regarding the ongoing conservation effort for the Black Rhino.&quot;</p>
</blockquote>
<p class="p1">
And #OpFunKill were quick to respond.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
The Great Hunter is a lonely man...: <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpFunKill&amp;src=hash">#OpFunKill</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CoreyKnowlton&amp;src=hash">#CoreyKnowlton</a> <a href="http://t.co/gUQIvcrEzR">pic.twitter.com/gUQIvcrEzR</a></p>
&mdash; TKrypt (@TKrypt) <a href="https://twitter.com/TKrypt/statuses/422701190573350912">January 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p class="p1">
Ben Carter, executive director of the club, who had his personal information leaked by #OpFunKill along with the rest of the board, told NBC News that he had <a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/09/22241242-dallas-safari-club-calls-in-fbi-after-death-threats-over-rhino-hunt-auction"><span class="s1">received death threats</span></a> via email. &quot;A number of the emails said, &#39;For every rhino you kill, we will kill a member of the club.&#39; It is some pretty crazy stuff.&quot;&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
He called in the FBI to investigate the threats.</p>
<p class="p1">
According to the <a href="http://worldwildlife.org/species/black-rhino"><span class="s1">World Wildlife Fund</span></a>, the primary reason the black rhino is endangered is over-hunting by Europeans during the colonial period, which reduced the population to below sustainable levels. It has been further decimated by local unlicensed hunters who sell the rhino horn to the Asian market, where it is sought after for its supposed medicinal qualities. SaveTheRhino estimates that between 1970 and 1992 this poaching led to <a href="http://www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/species_of_rhino/black_rhinos/black_rhino_factfile"><span class="s1">a 96 percent decrease in numbers for the black rhino</span></a>; the population has now almost doubled from that low point.</p>
<blockquote>
<p class="p4">
European hunters are responsible for the early decline of black rhino populations. It was not uncommon for five or six rhinos to be killed in a day for food or simply for amusement. &ldquo;DOOMED.&rdquo; That was the front page headline of the UK newspaper, the Daily Mirror, in 1961, accompanied by a full-page photo of two African rhinos. The article said that rhinos were &ldquo;doomed to disappear from the face of the earth due to man&rsquo;s folly, greed, neglect,&rdquo; and encouraged readers to support a new conservation organization: WWF.&nbsp;</p>
</blockquote>
<p class="p1">
#OpFunKill existed long before Ronnie the Rhino entered the picture, and it will likely continue after he&#39;s been shot. It is an operation focused around opposing <i>all</i> entertainment hunting, and has earlier targeted <a href="https://twitter.com/OpFunKill/status/419084495720316928"><span class="s1">GoDaddy</span></a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/OpFunKill/status/411658929824096257"><span class="s1">Seaworld</span></a>, and others. But in Ronnie it found an icon it could ride right into the international headlines: CNN, NBC, the BBC, the <i>Guardian</i>, and even the <i>Namibian</i>.</p>
<p class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="365" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UEYsAjFSjxA?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="630"></iframe></p>
<p class="p1">
<i>Photo via <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/93242958@N00/8011491413/in/photolist-dcWZhi-dcX28Y-8kFLLo-bwDHE4-fQ6u4e-eeNso4-dy3Y2z-frZ287-9Z5nxW-bsapEF-bsaq2x-bsapRp-bsapMF-7FBMHV-8NHWN7-a3RwUw-fD11kg-88oH9W-fD13Lp-81vh6i-anrGdC-8ogJbT-8PNUST-8xi7Cn-8pTGrZ-8PNUxz-bx3rcL-aj7CZR-9FrJu7-7DrXAR-9ZpXWB-94J3q3-coZgDY-coZhVW-coZff9-coZ3Wy-coZjs7-coZcCu-coZ8Kf-coZ2G7-coZ5cW-coZmbh-coZbeC-coZ6qQ-coZdYQ-coZ7yo-coZnmL-coZ9U7-bSYsWe-fb4RPs-faPAke">Derek Keats</a>/Flickr</i></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:11:26 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/opfunkill-anonymous-black-rhino-hunt-namibia/AnonymousNewsThis guy's cover band is better than yours because robotshttp://www.dailydot.com/upstream/bit-52s-james-cochrane-robot-cover-band/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/5d/d7/5dd7236b4bca2d10ae0f26dcb38e2a32.jpg'></p><p>
The Bit-52s are the best all-automated band you&#39;ve never heard of. Almost half a million other people have, though, because the <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/youtube/">YouTube</a> video of this Rube Goldberg contraption playing &quot;Mock Lobster&quot; has racked up 436,000 views and counting. Read on to meet the meat behind the music.&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="527" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/a2SnYa2aJNo?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p>
By day, James Cochrane is an ordinary-seeming Torontonian. By night, he&#39;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/bd594?feature=watch">bd594</a>, a mad genius in the workshop, crafting musical delights on a mad scientist&#39;s assortment of vintage computer parts assembled from garage sales, electronics stores, and trash heaps all over Hogtown. In a radio interview with Canada&#39;s national broadcaster the CBC, he admitted to having set his rig on fire a few times. &quot;The voltage doesn&#39;t kill ya: it&#39;s the current!&quot; he said.</p>
<p>
In the About section of each YouTube video (all recorded live) he outlines the components of each assemblage. The Bit-52&#39;s, for example, are composed of:&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>
Male vocals - TI99/4a computer, speech synthesizer and terminal emulator ii module</li>
<li>
Back-up female vocals - Two HP Scanjet 3C scanners (Not Printers), UBunto and sjetplay written by NuGanjaTron</li>
<li>
The Guitar, Keyboard, Cow Bell, Cymbal and Tambourine are all controlled by various types of push/pull solenoinds for a total of 23. The Solenoids are powered by four ULN2803 darlington drivers and everything is controlled by two PIC16F84A microcontrollers.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>
The Daily Dot spoke with Cochrane via email to find out why a family man with a day job spends his nights putting together cover versions of pop hits on hardware that was current when Madonna was still on her first face.</p>
<p>
<strong>What&#39;s your background?</strong></p>
<p>
name: &nbsp;James Cochrane</p>
<p>
location: &nbsp;Toronto, Ontario, Canada</p>
<p>
job: network engineer</p>
<p>
education: &nbsp;Electronics Engineer, <a href="http://www.rccit.ca/">Radio College of Canada</a></p>
<p>
<strong>Do you see yourself as a music hacker? Are you trained in music?</strong></p>
<p>
I do not see myself as a hacker rather a &quot;repurposer&quot; of any throw away old electronic stuff. &nbsp;I have no musical training; however, I do play keyboards. &nbsp;Always wanted to join a band but suffer from stage fright so I have built machines that play actual instruments. &nbsp;Some day I may take them on the road.</p>
<p>
<strong>When did you start making music on computer parts? Did someone inspire you?</strong></p>
<p>
I started back in 2009 and my main influences are</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfHHLfbjNQ">James Houston</a></p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2JChnwv2Ws">pieplateindustires</a></p>
<p>
<strong>How do you put together your music?</strong></p>
<p>
This answer can go on for 100 pages so I will keep it short.</p>
<p>
I like to use old computers such as the Amiga 600, Yamaha CX5M and other legacy computers to create music. I also build a lot of custom circuits which allows me to interface between different types of equipment. For example, I use sheet music or MIDI files to extract the notes from a song and use a microcontroller such as the PIC16F84A to execute the task. For example creating a <a href="http://pcbheaven.com/wikipages/PWM_Modulation/">PWM squarewave</a> which generates a musical note in such things as a stepper motors. <a href="http://www.omega.ca/prodinfo/stepper_motors.html">Stepper motors</a> can be found in floppy drives, printers and scanners. Each device has a certain range of notes so I have to keep that in mind when putting together a song.</p>
<p>
<strong>Of all your songs, which is your favorite, and why? Which took the longest? Have any musicians approached you about working together? I can totally see you working with They Might Be Giants.</strong></p>
<p>
My favorite song is EOL Robot Band covers The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson, &nbsp;and it took me 6 months to complete. [Note: that&#39;s one month of work per 100,000 views, for those of you counting.]</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="527" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9QMtDyvAzVw?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p>
This is my favorite video because I could never play a guitar or cello so I built a machine that could play for me.</p>
<p>
<strong>Are you planning any tours?</strong></p>
<p>
I have been asked to visit to Chicago, New York, and Athens (Georgia) but my job prevents me from touring. Some of my videos have been used in trade shows, cable access channels and even the <a href="http://www.kortfilmfestival.be/">Belgium KORT film festival</a>. Companies such as Epson and Audi have also expressed interested in working together but I could not find time to travel overseas.</p>
<p>
<strong>Is there a song that you&#39;d love to do but just haven&#39;t managed to get it done the way you want? A &quot;great white buffalo&quot; if you will?</strong></p>
<p>
&quot;Mad World&quot; was really complicated. I could never get the cello to play long sustained notes. This is how I stumbled across one my songs &quot;Beautiful People.&quot;</p>
<p>
[In the remarks on YouTube, Cochrane explains the process:</p>
<p>
One night I was working on the Cello and the stepper motor started to jitter almost ripping the Cello string and Bow apart. As I was jumping over to the power switch I noticed that the jittery sound reminded me of a song. That song turned out to be The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson. I programmed a small part for the Cello and it sounded great. Who would have ever though to use a Cello for that song? 2 months later.... my video was complete. So Enjoy. I may follow up with a another video showing what circuits, parts and tools that were used to make these robots.</p>
<p>
Muting the guitar strings was a bitch but if you look at the solenoids on Fret 4 and 8 you will see that I covered the pads with foam and velvet. It is soft enough to stop the strings from vibrating.]</p>
<p>
I am currently working on The B-52&#39;s - &quot;Private Idaho&quot; with my robot band The Bit-52&#39;s. &nbsp;It will be another YouTube video for the <a href="http://artrocksathens.com/">Art Rocks Athens</a> Event in Athens, Georgia (May 2014). I am also working on a top secret project. All I can tell you it is a song from the late 60s&ndash;early 70s.&nbsp;</p>
<p>
<strong>What is your favorite piece of machinery to make music with, and why?</strong></p>
<p>
<a href="http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/kb/search/?sp4ts.oid=25286&amp;spf_p.tpst=kbSearchMain&amp;spf_p.pbp_kbSearchMain_myAction=withResults&amp;javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&amp;javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken#searchResultHead">HP Scanjet 3C</a> because it has the warmest sound and is great for vocal tracks.</p>
<p>
<strong>How long have you been doing this? Have you made any money with it?</strong></p>
<p>
I have been doing this since 2009 on a bet that I could not make a viral video with over a million hits, and it is my goal to reach over 100 million views. Please note you may see advertising on some of my videos but I have not made one penny. YouTube has offered to pay me $200 which is a slap in the face when you consider I have accumulated over 10 million views. Maybe I need a manager.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
&bull;&bull;&bull;</p>
<p>
With 10 million views, an international reputation, and offers from major brands, at the very least, he needs a good agent.&nbsp;</p>
<p>
<em>Image via </em><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wbaiv/6685104979/"><em>Bill Abbott</em></a><em>/Flickr</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:15:00 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/upstream/bit-52s-james-cochrane-robot-cover-band/YouTubeUpstreamDebugThe Anonymous operation to bring freedom to Cambodiahttp://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-op-cambodia/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/aa/9b/aa9bb2a4bf41679bab7e0a96890b73c9.jpg'></p><p dir="ltr">
Remember <a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/countries/asia-and-the-pacific/cambodia">Cambodia</a>? That&#39;s what <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/anonymous/">Anonymous</a> wants you to do right now, as it ramps up efforts under the flag of #OpCambodiaFreedom. I spoke via private webdocs to the Twitter account leading awareness of the operation to get a sense of what&#39;s going on in this time of crisis in Cambodia.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpCambodiaFreedom&amp;src=hash">#OpCambodiaFreedom</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23electionsKH&amp;src=hash">#electionsKH</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Cambodia&amp;src=hash">#Cambodia</a> do have Dictator like North Korea too, why everyone ignore Cambodia? <a href="http://t.co/Q3yz50tkKX">http://t.co/Q3yz50tkKX</a></p>
&mdash; AnonymousCambodia (@AnonymousKH) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonymousKH/statuses/419067241473114112">January 3, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p>
&quot;The unrest [is] caused by the government and the way it manage[s] the country,&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonymousKH">AnonymousCambodia</a> told me. &quot;They rule like the old day when they are head of the Communist-Cambodian state. The people rise up now because they have seen enough and the impact of government ruling is too much to stay silent.&quot;</p>
<p>
Officially a constitutional monarchy, Cambodia is in actuality ruled by Prime Minister Hun Sen, leader of a successful 1997 coup, who has <a href="http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/election-05062013185646.html">sworn to remain in power until he is 74</a>, no matter what the election results say. He&#39;s got a couple of decades to go. Despite a growing economy, an estimated one third of Cambodian children suffer from malnutrition, and only 25 percent of the population has electricity.</p>
<p>
Hun&#39;s troops have clashed with anti-government protesters since the lead-up to the 2013 elections, and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/world/asia/antigovernment-march-draws-broad-coalition-of-protesters-in-cambodia.html">recently</a> the demonstrations and concordant government retaliations have escalated. Cambodia&#39;s clothing industry&mdash;tied to <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonymousKH/status/419827611749978113">Levis, H&amp;M, and Gap</a>, among others&mdash;is one of its most lucrative, in no small part because of low wages, and workers have <a href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/world/asia/cambodia-protests.html?from=world">taken to the streets</a> in the tens of thousands to protest and demand a doubling of the minimum wage to $160 per month. The government had offered a small increase instead. In return, on Jan. 3 Hun&#39;s army <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25585054">fired on the demonstrators using live ammunition,</a> sending many to hospital and killing at least four protesters.</p>
<p>
As a spokesman for Solidarity Center told the <em><a href="http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crackdown-turns-deadly">Phnom Penh Post</a></em>: &ldquo;In that economic zone, things have been getting out of hand. Whatever the case, this is complete disproportionate use of force, illegal and completely outrageous on behalf of the government.&rdquo;</p>
<p>
The recent events led Anonymous to speak out.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpCambodiaFreedom&amp;src=hash">#OpCambodiaFreedom</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23electionsKH&amp;src=hash">#electionsKH</a> Citizens being treated like they are terrorists in <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23phnompenh&amp;src=hash">#phnompenh</a> <a href="http://t.co/WcQ6wB2Ljn">pic.twitter.com/WcQ6wB2Ljn</a></p>
&mdash; AnonymousCambodia (@AnonymousKH) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonymousKH/statuses/419374575256739840">January 4, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p>
The next day #OpCambodiaFreedom <a href="http://topsy.com/analytics?q1=%23opCambodiaFreedom&amp;via=Topsy">peaked on Twitter</a>. The tweets included retweets of journalists onsite, graphic images of the protesters and police, and <a href="http://pastebin.com/bQpYqPP2">links</a> to growing media coverage. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpCambodiaFreedom&amp;src=hash&amp;f=realtime">More and more groups</a> and individuals rallied around the hashtag and began to echo <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonymousKH">Anonymous Cambodia</a>&#39;s call for an <a href="https://www.cyberguerrilla.org/blog/?p=17185">investigation by the Hague</a>. A new Change.org petition sprang up asking for U.N. intervention and now <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/the-united-nations-hold-cambodian-prime-minister-hun-sen-accountable-for-the-crimes-he-has-committed-against-his-country-and-his-people">boasts almost 20,000 signatures</a>.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
They are still trying to figure out how to evict this blind old woman who cannot walk from Freedom Park. <a href="http://t.co/a3NufEiJ0K">pic.twitter.com/a3NufEiJ0K</a></p>
&mdash; Julia Wallace (@julia_wallace) <a href="https://twitter.com/julia_wallace/statuses/419356587371667456">January 4, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p>
In response to the demonstrations, the government <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/world/asia/cambodia-crackdown-on-dissent.html?smid=tw-share">banned public assembly</a> and hauled in opposition leaders for questioning, as well as imprisoning many of the protesters. Authorities <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonymousKH/status/419389463567945728">locked down the area</a> in which the clashes had occurred and forcibly evicted the remaining protesters and residents. Government reaction continues to draw the attention of international journalists.</p>
<p>
&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
I just tried to chat up a daughter of the Cambodian power cabal. If I &quot;disappear&quot; it would have been worth it - wow</p>
&mdash; Nathan Thompson (@NathanWrites) <a href="https://twitter.com/NathanWrites/statuses/420758186199482370">January 8, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p>
The Anonymous operation had actually been active, if isolated, for months. It took headlines on the BBC to draw world attention to its actions.</p>
<p>
Back in October participants had re-uploaded the operation announcement video to Vimeo.</p>
<p>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/74894940" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe></p>
<p>
<a href="http://vimeo.com/74894940">Anonymous Cambodia ►Operation Freedom #opCambodiaFreedom</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user20987550">AnonymousCambodia</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>
The <a href="http://privatepaste.com/f55dbefb8e">transcript</a> reads, in part:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
Government of the once great Kingdom of Cambodia, you have decided to disregard our requests to assist the people of this country, and have persisted in running a one-way system &hellip; to benefit yourselves.</p>
<p>
You have created a system which ensures the poor remain poor, and the wealthy remain wealthy. The system has failed us.</p>
<p>
To the Kingdom of Cambodia government, you have made an enemy of Anonymous, you have angered us considerably and we now pose a significant threat to you. Your worst enemy is now your own people.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
That video&#39;s views peaked on Jan. 3, as news of the bloody clashes spread across Europe and Asia. On Jan. 5, the video and transcript were uploaded to the influential international Anonymous site <a href="https://www.cyberguerrilla.org/blog/?p=17182">Cyberguerrilla</a>, driving more awareness across Anonymous circles. An <a href="http://youtu.be/dok-qb_rs4A">American-accented version</a> of the Brit-inflected video was created and uploaded Jan. 1, and it already boasts more views than the original.</p>
<p>
A flamboyant hack of a government website and unforgettable defacement quickly followed.</p>
<p>
&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpFreeCambodia&amp;src=hash">#OpFreeCambodia</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23hacked&amp;src=hash">#hacked</a> <a href="http://t.co/WqfGZfAkUu">http://t.co/WqfGZfAkUu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23defaced&amp;src=hash">#defaced</a> Via <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonymousKH">@AnonymousKH</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="http://t.co/hjqPVTtiVo">pic.twitter.com/hjqPVTtiVo</a></p>
&mdash; AnonymouSkY (@AnonStarseed) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonStarseed/statuses/419097104577880064">January 3, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p>
The satirical image was tailor-made for social media, and it had a significant role in the rise of the #OpCambodiaFreedom hashtag.</p>
<p>
Anonymous Cambodia also <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonymousKH/status/418117251561029632/photo/1">boasted</a> that it had temporarily sidelined the website of the government-controlled national television company and <a href="http://pastebin.com/exqt2X3z">published a list</a> of websites to be targeted. At the time of publishing all the sites listed are offline except <a href="http://dns1.online.com.kh/">one</a>, which has been emptied of everything but the words &quot;go away.&quot; Several other government sites were also defaced, while a <a href="http://cmcrailcam.gov.kh/">government railway site</a> currently features an oversized iframe embedding the contents of the <a href="http://anonymouscambodia.tumblr.com/">Anonymous Cambodia Tumblr</a> (though there is a flaw in the code preventing the images from displaying).</p>
<p>
Anonymous continues to urge supporters to tweet and fax buyers for major garment retailers and designers, hoping to convince them to pressure the government to comply with worker demands.</p>
<p>
&quot;We need the world to bring dictator Hun Sen to ICC Court. This is the only wish that Cambodian people want to accomplish now,&quot; Anonymous Cambodia told me. &quot;And ultimately the Cambodian people deserve freedom.&rdquo;</p>
<p>
<em>Photo via <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Khmer.Shadow">Team Khmer-Shadow</a>/Facebook</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:59:04 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-op-cambodia/AnonymousNews#OpSafeWinter: Anonymous fights homelessness worldwidehttp://www.dailydot.com/news/op-safe-winter-anonymous/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/56/b6/56b62b60b8766bc05a8862655b7a647b.jpg'></p><p dir="ltr">
&quot;Do something amazing this winter... that&rsquo;s the point.&quot;</p>
<p dir="ltr">
So said the administrator of&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/opsafewinter">@OpSafeWinter</a>, the Twitter account heading up public relations for Anonymous&#39; most ambitious project for 2013 and 2014. We spoke to the Anonymous member via Twitter direct message for an exclusive interview on the umbrella project dubbed&nbsp;<a href="https://opsafewinter.org/">#OpSafeWinter</a>. The goal is to get Anons and &quot;civilians&quot; out into the streets all over the world to save lives by giving the homeless and the critically poor the tools they need to survive at least one more season.</p>
<p dir="ltr">
Because it is an international operation, including operatives on both sides of the Equator, the &quot;winter&quot; of the title continues all year long, switching hemispheres at the equinox. They will, essentially, never run out of winter. As New England faces the wrath of Hercules, Anonymous lines up to fight back with sleeping bags, mittens, and hot meals.</p>
<p dir="ltr">
The&nbsp;<a href="http://pastebin.com/Hp772vVW">operation was announced</a>&nbsp;in a Pastebin November 7, when it became apparent that this season would bring some truly cruel weather to North America, Europe, and Asia. It quickly gained popularity among Anons, many of whom have been itching to get back into the streets for some direct, and positive, action. This kind of do-gooder op is problematic for some older Anons, who remember the days when it was all done with keyboards for the lulz; they call this &quot;moralfagging&quot; with all the contempt they can muster, but since 2008, when Anonymous went up against Scientology in OpChanology, moralfagging has been an important part of the fractious collective.</p>
<p dir="ltr">
It can also be highly effective. While actually eliminating homelessness is a problem even Anonymous can&#39;t tackle with confidence, making sure some people have food, warm clothes, and some basic tools like flashlights is the kind of thing that appeals to a very wide swathe of the population. Indeed, in our interview OpSafeWinter made it clear that one doesn&#39;t need to be a part of Anonymous to participate and support.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NYC&amp;src=hash">#NYC</a> people: 60 Wall St at 6:30 PM tonight! Join <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpSafeWinter&amp;src=hash">#OpSafeWinter</a> for a potluck! Via <a href="https://twitter.com/OpSafeWinterNYC">@OpSafeWinterNYC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OWS&amp;src=hash">#OWS</a> <a href="http://t.co/P5QuTXAkto">pic.twitter.com/P5QuTXAkto</a></p>
&mdash; AnonymouSkY (@AnonStarseed) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonStarseed/statuses/419214166948184064">January 3, 2014</a></blockquote>
<p dir="ltr">
Friday, for example, everyone in New York, Anon or not, was invited to participate in a potluck at 60 Wall Street at 6:30pm, and Occupy was one of the groups supporting the event. OpSafeWinter not only works directly with some organizations, but also just goes ahead and RT&#39;s and spreads the word when it becomes aware of similar efforts by other groups. As well, it incorporates many pre-existing localized Ops.</p>
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&quot;OpSafeWinter is [an] Anonymous operation, which involves<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpFeedHomeless">&nbsp;#OpFeedHomeless</a>, OpNatal (Brazil) OpELE (France) ,<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23opXMAS">&nbsp;#opXMAS</a>&nbsp;(Canada) based &amp; OpHelpingHand (Venezuela),&quot; OpSafeWinter told us. Activist and author&nbsp;<a href="http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/binding-chaos/">Heather Marsh</a>&nbsp;lists&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpNatal&amp;src=hash">#OpNatal</a><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpSafeWinter&amp;src=hash">&nbsp;#OpSafeWinter</a><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpXmas&amp;src=hash">&nbsp;#OpXmas</a><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpUnaManoAmiga&amp;src=hash">&nbsp;#OpUnaManoAmiga</a>&nbsp;<br />
/<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpHelpingHand&amp;src=hash">&nbsp;#OpHelpingHand</a><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpFeedTheHomeless&amp;src=hash">&nbsp;#OpFeedTheHomeless</a><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpSyriaAid&amp;src=hash">&nbsp;#OpSyriaAid</a>&nbsp;(coming soon) as participants in the umbrella operation. &quot;Operations cant work separated but with one goal and same cause to help to homeless people and [the] poor,&quot; added OpSafeWinter. The&nbsp;<a href="https://piratenpad.de/p/OpSafeWinter">Pirate Pad planning document</a>&nbsp;lists 13 American cities participating, although the coordinator for Houston has retired after December burnout.</p>
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There are only 12 countries officially involved, but as support grows, the paperwork falls behind. &quot;Thats not final number because we are adding twitter accounts with local initiatives regularly every day, about 80+ locations for now. Portland is doing epic things, as [are] Anon UK based activists.&quot; The&nbsp;<a href="https://opsafewinter.org/?p=387">UK arm of the op</a>&nbsp;is one of the most active, and one of the first to get involved. Almost a year ago this video of Anonymous Nottingham encountering a homeless man went viral, and almost certainly helped inspire the birth of the current operation.</p>
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<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="365" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CyY0Bct6qz8?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="640"></iframe></p>
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Other organizations that are directly involved include WeSayNoClothing and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.miriamskitchen.org/">Miriam`s Kitchen</a>&nbsp;in Washington, D.C. &quot;They are directly involved as organisations and some of donors wanted to stay anonymous. Also everyone can make some cooperation with organizations which shows some good will.&quot;</p>
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Line for Christmas Eve dinner from <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FoodNotBombs&amp;src=hash">#FoodNotBombs</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpSafeWinter&amp;src=hash">#OpSafeWinter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="http://t.co/pCJpcIj21O">pic.twitter.com/pCJpcIj21O</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/punkboyinsf">@punkboyinsf</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kenshouse57">@kenshouse57</a></p>
&mdash; ヽ(ಠ_ಠ)ノ (@JoeMomasNuts) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeMomasNuts/statuses/415708554989801472">December 25, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.foodnotbombs.net/">FoodNotBombs</a>&nbsp;worked with Occupy two years ago, and now Anonymous is helping to publicize their efforts through this Op.</p>
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We asked what regular people could do to help without donning a mask. OpSafeWinter replied, &quot;What is asked: warm clothes, gloves, sleeping bags, food. Also individual actions. Even if one person see some homeless person on street, not to bypass him but to stand, speak and show compassion and (if is possible) to give something as donation to that person. That means much.&quot;</p>
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&quot;USA activists are trying to do pressure on cities where feeding of homeless is banned. That`s not compassion.&quot; He also cited Portland, Oregon, as the &quot;shining star&quot; of the Op; Portland has, of course, a long history of activism. It also has one of the milder climates in the continental U.S. at that latitude, which is fortunate for its homeless population.</p>
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While the operation has no hacking component, deliberately avoiding controversy, some of the ops under the umbrella have gone rogue. &quot;Brazil anons did defaces for OpNatal (OpXMAS). Brazil deface[d] the&nbsp;<a href="http://gastaovidigal.sp.gov.br/menu/allNot.php">Prefeitura Municipal de Gast&atilde;o Vidigal&nbsp;</a>website.&quot; That is a government site that was at the time touting improvements to the social safety net, the one whose shortcomings Anons were taking to the streets to rectify. A group called TeamCrashers took responsibility for the deface.</p>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23opXmas&amp;src=hash">#opXmas</a>: <a href="http://t.co/OyznrMbNQl">http://t.co/OyznrMbNQl</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Hacked&amp;src=hash">#Hacked</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Defaced&amp;src=hash">#Defaced</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamCrashers">@Teamcrashers</a> &amp; 4n0n~H4ck3r~C4mp0s <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Brazil&amp;src=hash">#Brazil</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpNatal&amp;src=hash">#OpNatal</a> <a href="http://t.co/7mJpNOh6qL">pic.twitter.com/7mJpNOh6qL</a></p>
&mdash; AnonymouSkY (@AnonStarseed) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonStarseed/statuses/415622806580105216">December 24, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Interestingly,&nbsp;<a href="http://mlcastle.net/raisethefist/bloc.html">Black Bloc</a>, the bogeymen of the activist movement with a reputation for random physical violence and government infiltration, actively support OpSafeWinter and even handed out toys to children in Sao Paulo. &quot;In Brazil BlackBloc also supports op as Occupy is doing in USA somehow. I like when Black Bloc shared gifts to kids in Sao Paolo for Xmas.&quot; While the debate about whether Black Bloc is a group or a tactic rages on, the same could once have been said for Anonymous.</p>
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If Anonymous can turn Black Bloc into Santa, what can&#39;t they do?</p>
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<img src="http://i.imgur.com/NJgwzbo.gif" style="-webkit-user-select: none" /><br />
<em><small>via <a href="http://imgur.com/NJgwzbo">Imgur</a></small></em></p>
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<em><strong>Correction:</strong>&nbsp;The original version of this article misstated the name of one of the participating organizations, WeSayNoClothing. This version has been corrected to reflect the accurate name.&nbsp;</em></p>
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<em>Image via <a href="https://opsafewinter.org/">Opsafewinter.org</a></em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Sat, 04 Jan 2014 22:07:26 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/op-safe-winter-anonymous/AnonymousNewsDebugInfamous hacker Barnaby Jack's death ruled accidentalhttp://www.dailydot.com/news/barnaby-jack-death-accidental/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/cf/07/cf07775c3251abe10b748d6c174583fc.jpg'></p><p dir="ltr">
It&#39;s official: the murderous hacker conspiracy theory that riveted geeks of a more paranoid persuasion worldwide is itself slain. Barnaby Jack, the Kiwi hacker best known for making ATMs spit out fountains of cash on command, a trick known as Jackpotting, is officially ruled to have died of an accidental drug overdose. Literally, Acute Mixed Drug (heroin, cocaine, diphenhydramine, alprazolam) Intoxication; ACCIDENT.</p>
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Because the flamboyant Jack was also known for designing hacks for implanted medical devices like pacemakers and insulin pumps, some suspected he&#39;d been assassinated, perhaps using his own techniques (he had no such device, it should be noted). As&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/conspiracy-theories-death-hacker-barnaby-jack/">we reported at the time of his death</a>, a week previously he&#39;d boasted that he could kill a man from 30 feet away. He&#39;d been scheduled to demonstrate the potentially fatal insulin pump hack at the Black Hat hacking conference only a few days later, but for obvious reasons he never made it. His speaking slot was kept in place to give people who knew him personally or by reputation time to think on his legacy.</p>
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Essentially, the conspiracies conclude he was killed because he was too dangerous to live, leaving aside the continued existence of any number of pacemaker-sporting potential targets.</p>
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The&nbsp;<a href="http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3803095/barnaby_jack_autopsy_report_san_francisco_medical_examiner.pdf">autopsy report</a>&nbsp;is out, and in it are listed the foreign substances Jack had in his system at the time of his death. It&#39;s a long list: morphine, codeine, cocaine, benzoylecgonine, diphenhydramine, alprazolam, diltiazem, caffeine, levamisole, diphenhydramine, diazepam, oxazepam, quinine, nicotine. But no alcohol, despite the numerous empties around him. There were &quot;a dozen or more&quot; e-cigarettes around the room with a variety of vapour liquids, blood in his nostrils, a rolled up blank check and a handful of other rolled up papers with white powder residue nearby.</p>
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Jack&#39;s girlfriend had found him and called 911. At 2:30 p.m. that day they&#39;d made dinner plans, and she&#39;d heard no indication of stress or suicidal thoughts on his part. When she got home from work she found him unresponsive, lying in their bed. By 8 p.m. the paramedics had arrived and confirmed that he was already dead. The Medical Examiner&#39;s report makes it clear that he was an otherwise healthy 36-year-old male who&#39;d simply layered too many life-compressing substances into one empty afternoon and not lived to see the end of it.</p>
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Hacker Adrian Lamo, who knew Jack only by reputation and has had&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/lamo/">his own issues with drug use</a>, had&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/majordomo/permalink/10152113874099522/?comment_id=10152114300379522&amp;offset=0&amp;total_comments=35">this comment on Facebook</a>:</p>
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<em>It sounds like he had a working knowledge of illicit pharmacology. And yeah, it&#39;s pretty easy to overdose, and not at all uncommon for someone to predose before a social engagement. In the end, it&#39;s just the blink of an eye&mdash;there&#39;s not necessarily any time to even get an &quot;uh-oh&quot; in before it all goes dark.</em></p>
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On the other hand, not everyone is buying the official diagnosis. Fellow hacker&nbsp;<a href="http://www.halock.com/blog/author/rgilbert/">Robert Gilbert</a>&nbsp;had&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/majordomo/permalink/10152113874099522/?comment_id=10152114499449522&amp;offset=0&amp;total_comments=35">the comment</a>&nbsp;&quot;Yay, my tin hats are selling out now.&quot; Old habits die hard in hacker culture.</p>
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<em>Image via&nbsp;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackhatevents/9419241488/">Black Hat Events</a>/Flickr</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:31:30 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/barnaby-jack-death-accidental/CrimeNewsAnonymous hackers' latest victim is a 'White Pride' websitehttp://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-fascist-site-hacked/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/73/df/73df082a5f70bf760c3a9b06cb73e7f3.jpg'></p><p dir="ltr">
Good Night, White Pride!</p>
<p dir="ltr">
So declares the website <a href="http://nationalist.org/">Nationalist.org</a>, a white supremacist site for the Nationalist movement founded by the late Richard Barrett, a key figure in the racist Skinheadz group. Yes, it&#39;s been hacked by Anonymous, specifically the #OpAntifa sub-group. The deface is ongoing and active at the time of publication, although it applies only to the main page. The f<a href="http://nationalist.org/forum/">orums are fine</a>, if somewhat tumbleweed-filled.</p>
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<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="365" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/o8ryJuKlo_c?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="640"></iframe></p>
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Warning: there IS autoplay rap music! although thankfully the Anonymous hackers responsible were kind enough to make sure they didn&#39;t set the YouTube to loop. The video shows rioters versus police in a variety of locales including Germany.</p>
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And what treasure trove of cultural wisdom has the world lost with this deface? The Nationalist organization was primarily known among the general public for protesting Martin Luther King Day, and for the checkered<a href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/55247"> reputation of its founder</a>. According to a 2002 <a href="http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t184728/">discussion in the Stormfront forums</a>:</p>
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&quot;I&#39;d classify them as &lsquo;Nationalism-Lite&rsquo;&mdash;White Nationalism, but with too many foolish guidelines that make NO SENSE whatsoever. For example, their target audience are &lsquo;Skinheads,&rsquo; but they are against &lsquo;Symbols of Nazism or Hate&rsquo;... (If your TARGET audience are Skins, why the hell would you tell those Skins not to display Nazi symbols?)&quot;</p>
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and:</p>
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&quot;Essentially Nationalist.org is America&#39;s version of the National Bolshevik party of Russia. A collection of nutballs with strange personalities and alternate versions of history. I also believe that Nationalist.org claims that they started the skinhead trend in America. What a joke.&quot;</p>
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Then the founder of the forums stepped in to state that <a href="http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t184728/#post1648287">Barrett had a Jewish father</a> and was very possibly a kiddie-diddler, and that was that as far as Stormfront was concerned.</p>
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Given that the Nationalist founder died (in a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268474/White-supremacist-stabbed-beaten-death-black-neighbour-Mississippi-town.html">lurid murder</a>) almost four years ago, and that the freshest entry in their forum is several months old, it seems that Anonymous has once again gone after some low-hanging fruit, a website that hadn&#39;t been updated and secured properly. It is none the less an impressive deface, and has been up long enough that Google&#39;s cache of the site shows only the deface as well; either the hackers did this some time ago unnoticed or they cleverly pinged Google to crawl the site and wipe out the snapshot of the site which had been stored on its servers. <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/03/anonymous-hackers-deface-mississippi-based-white-pride-website-with-anti-fascist-message/">RawStory reports</a> that the hack was done Friday afternoon, so that would mean the latter if true.</p>
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Supporters of #OpAntifa claimed the kill and posted the predictable polemic in Anon-approved style. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OpAntifa?ref=stream">#OpAntifa</a> is a Greek anti-fascist op that has taken action in the past against the notorious Golden Dawn fascist party in Greece and supported anti-fascist actions elsewhere. Interestingly, the deface quotes American activist <a href="http://freejasonhammond.blogspot.ca/">Jason Hammond</a>, brother of imprisoned Anti-Sec hacker <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/jeremy-hammond-sentencing-protest/">Jeremy Hammond</a>; this would appear to be an international endorsement of Hammond&#39;s status among Anons and anarchists as a political prisoner.</p>
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<em>For long, we have seen the damage caused by the ideology of white supremacy. We have seen, and participated in, many decades of resistance to white supremacy. We, and others, will never stop fighting fascism and racism wherever it rears its head.</em></p>
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<em>We, as antifascists, and as Anonymous, refuse to give any quarter to fascists on our internet, as we have seen time and time again that they are like a plague, or a fungus, and when allowed to live in peace only multiply, and steal peace from those who would like to have no hatred for them.They spread their malice through children and adults alike.</em></p>
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<em>To counter this vile ideology, we present a quote from our own dear friend, and brother of Anarchaos, Jason Hammond:</em></p>
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<em>&ldquo;Everyone &nbsp;deserves a fair opportunity to lead a good and meaningful life and at &nbsp;the moment we have a long way to go before this is achieved. Sometimes &nbsp;we cry, other times we rejoice, but we must rise to the challenge and &nbsp;work through these difficult endeavors to create a beautiful and free &nbsp;society.&rdquo;</em></p>
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<em>This fight has been underway for many years. We used to use Boots and Batons, now we use virtual tools. Weapons have changed, not resolve. It does not end, or take breaks. We will take all actions to eradicate white pride from every corner of our world, physical and virtual.We will strike at all who support, promote, spread or hold fascist ideals, and we will do so with all of our strength, which is a great strength. Free <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/jeremy-hammond-stratfor-guilty-plea/">Jeremy Hammond</a>. Free the <a href="http://tinleyparkfive.wordpress.com/">Tinley Park 5</a> and all other antifascist prisoners of war.</em></p>
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Respect existence or expect resistance.</p>
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A glance at the sourcecode for the web page reveals the interesting addendum:</p>
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&quot;&lt;!-- Made by the beast --!&gt;&quot;</p>
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The kind of beast that keeps fascist tech support up at night.</p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Sat, 04 Jan 2014 17:43:30 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-fascist-site-hacked/AnonymousNewsIn the U.S, it's a crime—in Canada, it's the best political prank of the yearhttp://www.dailydot.com/layer8/weev-hack-canada-mike-duffy-odonnell/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/c5/c0/c5c0711794f14666de27fa292f4f2c1e.jpg'></p><p class="p1">
It&#39;s a tale of two cities: Washington and Ottawa. It&#39;s a tale of two hackers: <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/andrew-weev-auernheimer-sentenced-41-months/"><span class="s1">Andrew Auernheimer</span></a>, known as <a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/weev/"><span class="s1">weev</span></a>, and <a href="http://www.gpo.ca/riding/62/candidate"><span class="s1">Kevin O&rsquo;Donnell</span></a>, the Green Party of Ontario&#39;s deputy leader and provincial candidate for Ottawa Centre. It&#39;s also a tale of two countries on either side of the 49th parallel, and how that narrow line can sometimes make all the difference.</p>
<p class="p1">
Auernheimer is currently serving a 41-month prison sentence for identity theft and violating the <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030"><span class="s1">Computer Fraud and Abuse Act</span></a> (CFAA). In June of 2010 Auernheimer and his associates at Goatse Security exposed the emails of more than 100,000 iPad owners, through a flaw in security at AT&amp;T which they had discovered. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/weevs-case-flawed-beginning-end"><span class="s1">explains the hack</span></a>, &quot;AT&amp;T configured its website to automatically publish an iPad user&#39;s e-mail address when the server was queried with a URL containing the number that matched an iPad&#39;s SIM card ID. In other words, if anyone typed in the correct URL with a correct ID number, the e-mail address associated with that account would automatically appear in the login prompt.&quot;</p>
<p class="p1">
That is roughly analogous to the &quot;hack&quot; which enables telemarketers to reach unlisted numbers. They start at 100-0000, move on to -0001, then -0002, and so on. Testing each of those URLs (and then sending the results to Gawker) is basically what weev is in prison for.</p>
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Meanwhile, up in Canada, a prominent Canadian senator and ex-broadcaster named Mike Duffy was busy recording intro after intro for a Conservative Party fundraising video. A real pro, he did take after take, day after day, greeting hundreds of faceless Canadians by name. &quot;Hi Joel,&quot; he sang out perkily. And so on, for over 800 names. These snippets were then prepended to the rest of the fundraising video and emailed to loyal party supporters in hopes they would be inspired to shower the party with cash.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
Since that time, Duffy has become embroiled in a rather complex and Schadenfreude-rich scandal revolving around, of course, money. The charges include <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/10/08/rcmp-lay-out-new-allegations-of-misspending-against-mike-duffy/"><span class="s1">paying a friend to do no visible work</span></a> and taking money from the party to pay his own legal bills, along with the standard issue expense account irregularities. The upshot is that Senator Duffy has replaced Toronto mayor Rob Ford as the punchline of choice in Canadian political circles.</p>
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On December 18, Glen McGregor at the <i>Ottawa Citizen</i> <a href="http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2013/12/18/virtual-mike-duffy-haunts-us-still-on-cpc-website/"><span class="s1">stumbled across the intro videos</span></a>, still echoing cheerfully into the void online. &quot;Enter your first name here <a href="http://movingforward.conservative.ca/vb/101/c3eeg/glen"><span class="s1">http://movingforward.conservative.ca/vb/101/c3eeg/glen</span></a> and the senator reads it aloud &mdash; &ldquo;Hello, [YOUR NAME]. It&rsquo;s Mike Duffy&rdquo; &mdash; as extolls the many accomplishments of the prime minister.&quot;</p>
<p class="p1">
Among the many who could not resist was the aforementioned Kevin O&#39;Donnell. But merely forcing the politico to mumble &quot;Hi Kevin&quot; wasn&#39;t enough; he had to go on and scrape the whole website. By the afternoon he had trawled the site and <a href="http://app.kevino.ca/duffy/"><span class="s1">posted on his own</span></a> videos of Duffy greeting 750 individual names. The Canadian Twittersphere exploded and <i>Macleans</i>, Canada&#39;s answer to <i>Time</i> magazine, <a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/12/18/mike-duffy-says-hello-to-canada/"><span class="s1">interviewed O&rsquo;Donnell</span></a> the same day.</p>
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<p class="p1">
&quot;I&rsquo;m a computer programmer and just about everything I know about my trade was learned by digging through how other people have done their work and learning from it. So I dug into how they did the &lsquo;name&rsquo; videos. Of course, once that was solved, the idea of putting them all on the Internet was too funny to not do.&quot;</p>
</blockquote>
<p class="p1">
O&rsquo;Donnell also explained how he found those 750 names, and it sounds an awful lot like the &ldquo;hack&rdquo; that landed weev in prison:&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote>
<p class="p1">
&quot;The sleuthing showed the &lsquo;name&rsquo; videos were predictably located at<a href="http://a4.g.akamai.net/7/4/66755/v1/smb2.download.akamai.com/66755/flv/IiNANCAK_flash/namedata/FIRSTNAMEHERE_high.flv"> <span class="s1">this link</span></a>. Then I just googled for any list of first names and picked one that had about 3,500 in it. Running a downloader in a loop yielded 750 successful matches. I added an open source Flash video player on to the page and that was it.&quot;</p>
</blockquote>
<p class="p1">
The difference is that Canada doesn&rsquo;t have the <a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/cfaa/"><span class="s1">CFAA</span></a>, the 1986 anti-hacking law so broad it&rsquo;s been described as &ldquo;the worst law in technology.&rdquo; While weev remains locked up for exposing a major corporation&rsquo;s security flaws, O&rsquo;Donnell is being celebrated across Canada for doing roughly the same thing to a politician.&nbsp;</p>
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<i>Photo via Daniel Means/</i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/supa_pedro/389603266/"><span class="s1"><i>Flickr</i></span></a></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Fri, 27 Dec 2013 17:37:42 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/weev-hack-canada-mike-duffy-odonnell/UnclickLayer 8According to this test, I'm 68 percent psychopath; how about you?http://www.dailydot.com/irl/psychopath-test/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/8f/da/8fda75d073bafdc2d0ac2d96003c10fd.jpg'></p><p dir="ltr">
Year after year, decade after decade, even century after century, as extended families who see each other all too seldom gather for the holiday season one question remains pre-eminent:</p>
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What the hell are we going to talk about all damn day long?</p>
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Politics has been off the table since Charlemagne was a contender. Religion? <em>Yeahno</em>. Sex? Don&#39;t get Uncle Marty started on that. Board games and sitcoms were invented for just this purpose, but Cousin Peaseblossom&#39;s involvement with Occupy has spoiled Monopoly for the whole family, and there hasn&#39;t been a great sitcom since Alf was king. But now the relentless research elves at the Daily Dot have uncovered something the entire family can enjoy, and discuss, tirelessly, even relentlessly, for up to 72 hours in the confines of Grandma&#39;s rec room.</p>
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<a href="http://psychopath.channel4.com/quizzes.html">The Psychopath Test</a>. Settle the question once and for all.</p>
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Created by Oxford Professor and drama queen Dr. <a href="http://www.kevindutton.co.uk/kevin-dutton.html">Kevin Dutton</a>, it is just authoritative enough to be thought-provoking (and justify your opinion of That Woman Tim Married) and just flippant enough not to be admissible in court.</p>
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It takes four or five minutes for each person to run through the test, sobriety is not required (the buttons are REALLY BIG and the questions are REALLY SIMPLE) and then you have the whole weekend to argue over who&#39;s truly more psychopathic than whom, and reference all those colorful events in your pasts that prove/disprove it. Ah, nostalgia!</p>
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Full disclosure: I&#39;m 68 percent psychopath. Oscar Wilde was 71 percent, according to <a href="http://psychopath.channel4.com/quizzes.html#test1">The Spot the Psychopath Game</a>, from the same site. Clearly we both made the correct choice of profession.</p>
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68 percent psychopath: Though your conscience is in the right place you also have a pragmatic streak and generally aren&rsquo;t afraid to do your own dirty work! You&rsquo;re no shrinking violet&mdash;but no daredevil either. You generally have little trouble seeing things from another person&rsquo;s perspective but, at the same time, are no pushover. &lsquo;Everything in moderation&mdash;including moderation&rsquo; might sum up your approach to life.</p>
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Except during the holidays, surely?</p>
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<em>Image via <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/qilin/2134825701/">Christopher Augapfel</a>/Flickr</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:11:52 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/irl/psychopath-test/IRLUnclickScientists combine texting and vodka without any of the morning-after regrethttp://www.dailydot.com/news/send-texts-vodka-science/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/6b/06/6b060bc51dadf79e49bb92646e7fd297.jpg'></p><p>
You can now text message via vodka, and we&#39;re not talking about getting in touch with your ex as the Smirnoff runs out.</p>
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This is, thankfully, <a href="http://consumerist.com/2013/12/20/why-anyone-would-send-texts-via-perfectly-drinkable-vodka-is-unclear-but-hey-science/">less embarrassing</a>.</p>
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Scientists at Canada&#39;s York University and the U.K.&#39;s University of Warwick have managed to produce <a href="http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Blog/2013/12/19/Text-messages-sent-using-evaporated-vodka/2921387465458/">intelligible messages</a> from vodka fumes, which is more than anyone standing outside the Roxy at closing time has accomplished.</p>
<p>
The emitting device, which looks something like a sophisticated bathroom spray cleanser, translates alphabetic inputs (i.e., text messages) into a series of puffs of vodka vapor. The methodology is simple enough: The sensor detects greater or lesser concentration of evaporated vodka, so a heavy blast is a ONE and a pause is a ZERO. It&#39;s alcoholic binary, basically. The same concept has a more sophisticated physical expression in the Indonesian fabric art of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikat">ikat</a>, where groups of threads are tie-dyed before weaving and, when put together in a textile, form a pattern.&nbsp;</p>
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Or, less elegantly, it&#39;s comparable to the habit of wild animals leaving their scat for others to find and interpret. As the chief researcher charmingly points out in the video.</p>
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<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="365" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/39oEgkIThHU?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="640"></iframe></p>
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Andrew Eckford, professor at the Lassonde School of Engineering, explains, &quot;One way in which you could think of this system working is, for example, one robot could leave a message for another one. The first robot could drive along and leave behind it a pattern of chemical dots if you like. The second robot comes along and drives over that same strip and reads the dots.&quot; Like sniffing fire hydrants, but geekier.</p>
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The actual historic text first transmitted via vodka: the lyrics to &quot;O Canada.&quot; (More sophisticated than &quot;<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/science-technology/technology/technology-general/alexander-graham-bell.html">Mr. Watson, come here!</a>,&quot; but no less Canadian.)</p>
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According to <a href="http://consumerist.com/2013/12/20/why-anyone-would-send-texts-via-perfectly-drinkable-vodka-is-unclear-but-hey-science/">Consumerist.com</a>, you can buy the devices used in the test at any electronics store for about a hundred bucks. &quot;This wouldn&rsquo;t even have to be a sophisticated piece of equipment.&quot;</p>
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<em>H/T <a href="http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Blog/2013/12/19/Text-messages-sent-using-evaporated-vodka/2921387465458/">UPI</a> | Photo via </em><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/31754440@N00/2233440885/in/photolist-4pmYat-7HyYJL-bzW61R-6XMCXb-4KRYHL-btEx9V-4cAxfM-9JfJfS-7qwgYU-4n5b81-bX6skW-44LCpr-5Ke58Y-5LerZU-Fcs9P-5M6jC4-4dGZ5s-pQGv-6uozAH-9ZERvN-9Sy5dZ-8ouBf-9F5gJF-btbDhz-btbVvK-butWAc-btbJRB-butWQn-butWXM-caGLHE-kt5FW-czsexs-6bka65-9mbhwb-9m8cLH-4P9EyL-2gDfUn-6VCgf-8QsETG-8Qpqgn-8QpqUK-8QpqwT-8Qsyi9-97J9Uc-6iw7P-74NSfc-moeL5-71dPV3-25XBQ-5ErLC3-5ErKdA"><em>Avelino Maestas</em></a><em>/Flickr</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:45:57 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/send-texts-vodka-science/YouTubeNewsDebugThis guy proves helicopter hockey should be Canada's national pastimehttp://www.dailydot.com/upstream/canadian-helicopter-hockey/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/b9/e4/b9e4b4954c70443c04d90299be81e688.jpg'></p><p dir="ltr">
Vancouverite Bradley Friesen has an enviable life: being featured in the Huffington Post for having&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/bradley-friesen-bachelor-pad_n_3415578.html">the coolest apartment</a>&nbsp;in town; getting&nbsp;<a href="http://metronews.ca/news/vancouver/6650/vancouver-entrepreneur-slays-all-five-of-cbcs-dragons/">rushed by investors</a>&nbsp;when he announced his anti-hangover startup,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.lastcalldrink.com/">Last Call</a>, on Dragon&#39;s Den; taking&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/news/the-case-of-the-missing-grey-cup-mountain-top-video-celebration.html">the Grey Cup on a helicopter joyride</a>, then losing 2/3rds of the footage in a bar thanks to celebrating too hard.</p>
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Joining in a game of world class pond hockey with a 2000lb Robinson R-44 helicopter? Then pre-emptively saying &quot;Sorry&quot; &nbsp;to Transport Canada? All in a day&#39;s work.</p>
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<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="365" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wlCg56K08hE?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="640"></iframe></p>
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&quot;On December 9th, 2013, I filmed quite possibly the greatest hockey game in the history of the game... 4,000&#39; in the mountains with 8 different cameras. 250gb of awesomeness. I&#39;m pretty sure this should be a Canadian Beer commercial.&quot;</p>
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True, particularly as Canadian icons Bob and Doug Mackenzie point out that beer commercials always feature activities you can&#39;t do drunk.</p>
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There were four helicopters and eight former WHL hockey players involved in the stunt, as well as a whole lotta chutzpah. Okay, technically it&#39;s not helicopter hockey the way elephant polo is elephant polo, but it is skating on a stunning frozen lake in the North Shore mountains above Vancouver, just on a lark. Most of the videos on Friesen&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/kokonutz2?feature=watch">YouTube channel</a>&nbsp;aren&#39;t even monetized.</p>
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Anticipating some blowback for the stunt from safety-conscious Transport Canada, the government organization that oversees aircraft operations, he wrote up a detailed explanation of precautions taken including consulting the Farmer&#39;s Almanack, multiple ice borings to determine thickness, establishment of an exclusion zone for player&#39;s safety, and putting the hockey players to the right of the helicopter and only experienced pilots to the left, the side on which the rotor is located.</p>
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&quot;Sunday morning, we all met at YPK for an initial safety briefing, and flew +3 back to the lake with and aStar, H300 and 2 R-44&#39;s. It was -12 overnight, and added more thickness to the sheet. I walked the entire surface with a chainsaw and tape measure, and inspected the whole ice sheet. It was thick all the way across and had no ridges or holes. There was a small section of open water caused by a waterfall at the far end of the lake. We determined a safety line that no skaters were permitted to cross based on our test holes.&quot;</p>
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And so on, for 770 polite, Canadian words. Yes, this may indeed be the most Canadian story of all time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">
In the days since the video went up it&#39;s been featured on multiple media outlets (h/t&nbsp;<a href="http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2013/12/helicopter-skates-through-game-of-ice-pond-hockey-in-north-shore-mountains-video/">Vancity Buzz</a>, where we first saw it), and generated some mythology already. On December 12 the Vancouver affiliate of the national network CTV reported that&nbsp;<a href="http://bc.ctvnews.ca/pilot-who-skated-helicopter-through-hockey-game-defends-stunt-1.1590499">Transport Canada was indeed investigating</a>&nbsp;the incident. Their exact words were, &quot;Transport Canada confirmed to CTV News that it is investigating whether any of its rules were broken, including whether Friesen had the correct paperwork and filming permits.&quot; We contacted Friesen via Facebook, and he had some choice scare quotes for CTV.</p>
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&quot;There is zero story to the &#39;investigation&#39;,&quot; he told us. &quot;CTV are just trying to make a story. I reported myself to transport and there has been no letter to me or response to me except a acknowledgement of the receipt of my email. CTV are the 3rd highest rated newscast locally who are trying to manufacture something. Pissed me off that they &#39;ambushed me&#39; with pretending to do a story about the game, which was amazingly cool, and tried to make it about the &#39;controversy&#39;. Is there a potential I could be investigated in the future? Yes. Is this a story? No. Who does a story about me writing a letter of explanation? It was fairly pathetic.</p>
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<strong>So, are all those startlingly badass links that come up when you Google &quot;Bradley Friesen&quot; really you?</strong></p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="ltr">
Yes. Huff-po, LASTCALL,&nbsp;<a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/957419/vancouver-helicopter-marriage-proposal-video-goes-viral/">Helicopter Proposal</a>, Losing the grey cup footage at a bar... all me. I&#39;m kind of an all-round jackass. I&#39;ve also been wearing&nbsp;<a href="http://imgur.com/a/HzZ2f#0">a different t-shirt</a>, every single day for the past four years, and plan on donating all my thousands of shirts to the homeless someday, once I figure how to turn it into a charity. I&#39;m just guy who has fun and does things that interest him. Sometimes without thinking.</p>
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<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/12/18/Bradley_Friesen.jpg" style="width: 640px; height: 360px;" /></p>
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<strong>Your latest video,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.doritos.com/base/submissionsphase?region_id=us-en&amp;content_id=14058">Chips before Chicks</a>, is entered in the Doritos commercial contest. Will it make it to the Super Bowl? I don&#39;t envy those models in bikinis in Canada in November.</strong></p>
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<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="365" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Fee4F6ShWN0?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="640"></iframe></p>
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The Doritos commercial has a two in 24 chance of airing on the Super Bowl. First time I&#39;ve ever entered. Never done videos other than for fun, so, learning as I go.</p>
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He seems to be a fast learner.</p>
<p dir="ltr">
With three viral videos in rotation since November, Helicopter Hockey, Chips before Chicks, and the earlier Helicopter Proposal video, it&#39;s obvious that Bradley Friesen has scored that most Canadian of benchmarks, a hat trick.</p>
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<em>Images via Bradley Friesen</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:00:00 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/upstream/canadian-helicopter-hockey/UpstreamUnclickAnonymous' OpGabon returns ahead of Gabon's municipal electionshttp://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-op-gabon-returns/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/90/79/907920702072bdf6bba00aca3288970a.jpg'></p><p class="p1">
In April 2013, &nbsp;hacktivist collective&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/anonymous/"><span class="s1">Anonymous</span></a> and international human rights activists formed a coalition called <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/politics/anonymous-opgabon-bongo-murder-africa/"><span class="s1">OpGabon</span></a>, with the aim of drawing media attention to the ritual killing of children by entrenched elites, and exposing corruption and kleptocracy in the regime of Gabon&rsquo;s president, Ali Bongo Ondimba.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
Bongo <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/03/gabon.election.tension/"><span class="s1">was elected in 2009</span></a> to succeed his father, who had ruled as a dictator for 42 years. That election is widely believed to have been <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2009/09/200993115640388734.html"><span class="s1">fraudulent</span></a>. &quot;They don&#39;t care who will be the next president, as long as it is not Bongo,&quot; a citizen told CNN at the time.&nbsp;</p>
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But it was.</p>
<p class="p1">
Seven months after its debut, OpGabon is back. The Daily Dot spoke with activist Heather Marsh, author of <a href="http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/binding-chaos/"><span class="s1"><i>Binding Chaos</i></span></a>, to find out why. Marsh was deeply involved in bringing the first OpGabon to worldwide attention.</p>
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Despite billions in <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23oil&amp;src=hash">#oil</a> revenues, here is capital city of <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Gabon&amp;src=hash">#Gabon</a> today! Shame on corrupt <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Bongo&amp;src=hash">#Bongo</a> regime! <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpGabon&amp;src=hash">#OpGabon</a> <a href="http://t.co/Uo2unREWJX">pic.twitter.com/Uo2unREWJX</a></p>
&mdash; OpGabon (@OpGabon) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpGabon/statuses/399201769877540864">November 9, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p class="p1">
&quot;It is back because there is another election in December and the killings are escalating again. Anonymous has unfinished business,&rdquo; Marsh said.</p>
<p class="p1">
She pointed to a blog post announcing <a href="http://afrique2050.com/asp/index.php?news=7914"><span class="s1">public demonstrations</span></a> against ritual killing, and a <a href="http://pastebin.com/jQKcv2Y7"><span class="s1">Pastebin document</span></a> explaining how Anonymous intends to help.</p>
<p class="p1">
The exhaustive <a href="http://pastebin.com/jQKcv2Y7"><span class="s1">press release</span></a> came out November 20, and serves as a primer on the history of OpGabon, of ritual killings, and of Ali Bongo.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
&quot;We want legal actions taken against ritual killings of children in Gabon,&quot; it reads. It points out that President Bongo now admits that ritual killings occur, whereas before OpGabon he had denied it, and it claims that he has attempted to inoculate his family against charges of complicity by having his wife act as an anti-killing campaigner. Needless to say, the activists do not accept that her commitment to the campaign is genuine.</p>
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&quot;According to Yahoo Finance, Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba, along with his associates, pocketed 25% of Gabon&#39;s GDP in last 3 years. We demand that criminals and their sponsors be prosecuted, including powerful blood suckers and heart eaters who are also politicians. OpGabon has concentrated on ritual killings but that does not mean Anonymous is unaware of the corruption and profligacy of the Bongo regime. We are willing to expand our interest in the Bongo regime to include financial transparency if we feel it becomes necessary. Which it is.&quot;</p>
<p class="p1">
The goal of this operation is complete financial disruption of the first family of Gabon and all their associates, by disrupting the economy of the entire country if necessary. The press release specifically thanks Anonymous for their help in bringing this about.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
Marsh said, &quot;They promised last spring to bring focus on Ali Bongo&#39;s financial corruption if the ritual killings did not end. Gabon is on the United Nations Human Rights Council ... This lack of accountability is not acceptable.&quot;</p>
<p class="p1">
Attached to the footer of the release is a note from the Anonymous hacker website <a href="https://www.cyberguerrilla.org/paste/?68b5b5b18f6e325c#oTXO4u0pYJnTFzNamSIMxsG1I6EcgptpzJpGxbvjrso="><span class="s1">Cyberguerrilla</span></a>, noting that many Gabonese government sites have been increasing their security and patching holes since the last series of attacks, but that &quot;In actuality, the interwebs in Gabon are in very young, and there are plenty places to play.&quot; Then it links to a list of targets, and closes with Anonymous&rsquo; traditional &quot;expect us.&quot;</p>
<p class="p1">
DDoS attacks have apparently <a href="https://twitter.com/OpGabon/status/405864553449156608"><span class="s1">already begun</span></a> against a <a href="https://twitter.com/OpGabon/status/405861441774702592"><span class="s1">wide range of targets</span></a>, including oil and timber companies as well as government sites.</p>
<p class="p1">
In Gabon and <a href="http://en.gabonews.com/international/items/gabonese-protesting-in-france.html#.UpcrlhTAe5E.twitter"><span class="s1">in France</span></a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/OpGabon/status/406039054367469568"><span class="s1">protests</span></a> have sprung up, and President Bongo has closed the schools in hopes of preventing more problems, although the lessons of history show that this instead floods the streets with unsupervised children who can participate in and support the protests.&nbsp;</p>
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&laquo;<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Gabon&amp;src=hash">#Gabon</a> Govt has temporarily shut public schools in hope of containing protests, but the move has failed&raquo; <a href="http://t.co/ECLidtBEPA">http://t.co/ECLidtBEPA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpGabon&amp;src=hash">#OpGabon</a></p>
&mdash; OpGabon (@OpGabon) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpGabon/statuses/405882696087261184">November 28, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<i>Photo via </i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/briangratwicke/4395719615/"><span class="s1"><i>Brian Gratwicke</i></span></a><i>/Flickr</i></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:46:45 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-op-gabon-returns/AnonymousNews'Renegade elves' fight for better wages at Walmarthttp://www.dailydot.com/news/free-walmart-elves-protest/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/1f/d0/1fd053319d958f7a9e9f7563bf056a4b.jpg'></p><p dir="ltr">
At this time of year, you can hardly escape seeing elves. They&#39;re everywhere: in holiday cards, the mall, on your neighbor&#39;s lawn, and in ads for Walmart.</p>
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&ldquo;Wally &amp; Marty&rdquo; were introduced by the corporate retailer&nbsp;<a href="http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2006/10/04/wal-mart-unwraps-holiday-toy-wishes">in 2006</a>&nbsp;as &ldquo;renegade&rdquo; elves, &ldquo;synonymous with holiday spirit.&rdquo; The characters, however, have taken on a life of their own at the hands of protesters, who are attempting to make the two synonymous instead with the fight for better wages and conditions for Walmart employees.</p>
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The movement&rsquo;s called #FreeTheWalmartElves. It&rsquo;s being staged across social media platforms and parking lots around the country. The protests have intensified in reason weeks, especially in light of Walmart&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/18/1256461/-Ohio-Walmart-asks-its-workers-to-donate-Thanksgiving-food-for-their-coworkers#">asking employees</a>&nbsp;to contribute to a food bank for their fellow workers who were not making enough to buy necessities.</p>
<p>
A top activist in the protests, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the Daily Dot, &quot;A main message of the #WalmartElves movement is: &#39;Elves don&rsquo;t exist! The workers, who deserve a living wage, are not elves.&#39;&rdquo;</p>
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The movement started&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/21/1163843/--WalmartElves-having-a-bad-day#">last year</a>&nbsp;on Twitter, when Walmart tweeted that people should ask for gift suggestions using the hashtag #WalmartElves and promised Walmart staffers would answer. The hashtag quickly spiraled out of corporate control.</p>
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Do you need a gift idea? Use <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WalmartElves&amp;src=hash">#WalmartElves</a> and we&#39;ll help! <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BlackFriday&amp;src=hash">#BlackFriday</a></p>
&mdash; Walmart (@Walmart) <a href="https://twitter.com/Walmart/statuses/270678210075828224">November 20, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/toxiczarry">@toxiczarry</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Walmart">@Walmart</a> I suggest a union!</p>
&mdash; Grace Carr (@gracyelala) <a href="https://twitter.com/gracyelala/statuses/271994140546457600">November 23, 2012</a></blockquote>
<p>
Activists registered parody accounts in droves to dominate the conversation online: In a matter of weeks, however,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/TheWalmartElves">@TheWalmartElves</a>, @NoWalmartElves, and a half-dozen others were created&nbsp;<a href="http://elvesonstrike.tumblr.com/history">suspended</a>&nbsp;for violating the company&rsquo;s impersonation policy.</p>
<p>
The Walmart Elves turned to&nbsp;<a href="http://dailydot.com/communities/tumblr/">Tumblr</a>, but their original page was short-lived.</p>
<p>
In a document released on Scribd, the activists revealed&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/185092030/11-14-13-Ltr-to-Tumblr-Re-WalmartElves-Exhibits">a series of letters</a>&nbsp;sent to Tumblr by Walmart, asserting the company&rsquo;s trademark. The documents revealed just how closely Walmart is following the protests. The document listed the groups action&rsquo;s in its complaint, which included replacing official store signage with similar-looking signs saying things like &quot;$8.81 is not a living wage&quot; and &quot;Walmart is using its wealth and power to silence workers demanding a living wage.&quot;</p>
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In mid-November, shortly after Walmart contacted Tumblr, the protest site walmartelves.tumblr.com was suspended. An alternative parody site, Elves on Strike, now resides in its place. At the moment, the activists also have&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/ElvesOfWalmart/">@ElvesOfWalmart</a>&nbsp;and &nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/ElvesOnStrike_/">@ElvesOnStrike_</a>, along with support from similarly minded activist groups on Twitter. Eight accounts remain suspended.</p>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/small_affair">@small_affair</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/blackplans">@blackplans</a> Indeed we do! <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Solidarity&amp;src=hash">#Solidarity</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ElvesOfWalmart">@ElvesOfWalmart</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SweatshopElves">@SweatshopElves</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ElvesOnStrike_">@ElvesOnStrike_</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WalmartElves&amp;src=hash">#WalmartElves</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FreeTheWalmartElves&amp;src=hash">#FreeTheWalmartElves</a></p>
&mdash; ALWAYS Low Wages! (@LowWages) <a href="https://twitter.com/LowWages/statuses/406154797629198336">November 28, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p>
On Black Friday and every day leading up to and including Christmas, the group is calling on the public to show support for the living-wage campaign by using the hashtag #WalmartElves, by spreading&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/614767371918031/permalink/614852258576209/">two QR codes</a>&nbsp;that lead to the blog, and by scrawling the hashtag and related messages anywhere there&#39;s a flat surface. Their Tumblr lists&nbsp;<a href="http://elvesonstrike.tumblr.com/walmartelvesmaterials">a page of &quot;culture jamming&quot; supplies</a>, including print-outs, QR codes, and fake signs.</p>
<p>
&quot;Chalking #WalmartElves in a Walmart parking lot will hopefully inspire shoppers to search the hashtag and see that elves do not exist, but workers who deserve a living wage do,&quot; our source said.</p>
<p>
There&rsquo;s also a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/614767371918031/permalink/614852258576209/">Facebook&nbsp;</a>event that directs people to the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blackfridayprotests.org/">Black Friday protests website</a>, offering more detailed instructions on how to support job action at Walmart today. The&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blackfridayprotests.org/">map</a>&nbsp;pinpointing sites where actions are taking place is a dense field of red pointers tiled like shingles throughout the Midwest and East Coast, scattering across the plains and clustering again along the West Coast.</p>
<p>
While the #WalmartElves are most prominent during the holidays, the activists consider this to be a long-term endeavor, one that&rsquo;s committed to fighting censorship and for workers&rsquo; rights. &nbsp;</p>
<p>
&ldquo;The work of #WalmartElves,&rdquo; our source said, &ldquo;will never be done as long as Walmart treats workers unfairly.&rdquo;</p>
<p>
<em>Photo via&nbsp;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianturton/2154546011/">Ian Turton</a>/Flickr</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:00:39 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/free-walmart-elves-protest/NewsRedHack counters arrests with an embarrassing hackhttp://www.dailydot.com/news/redhack-arrested-occupy-gezi/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/9c/ae/9caee9c8c4c842c580a34b21bfb5db09.jpg'></p><p dir="ltr">
On Friday, 14 alleged members of&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/TheRedHack">RedHack</a>, the prominent Turkish socialist hacking crew, were arrested and held without bail. But after a day in court and an embarrassing breach of a government website, all of the individuals involved have been released.</p>
<p>
According to&nbsp;<em><a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/-turkish-actor-accused-of-being-redhack-member-released-by-court.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nID=58478&amp;NewsCatID=341">Hurriyet Daily News</a></em>, the 14 alleged members were apprehended by the Ankara Police Department&#39;s Cyber Crime Units in various locations and were asked, in the course of the investigation, as close to 30 questions regarding the organization&#39;s structure, duties, efforts, and role in the Gezi protests.</p>
<p>
Among those arrested was an alleged&nbsp;<a href="http://dailydot.com/communities/anonymous/">Anonymous</a>&nbsp;member and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/-turkish-actor-accused-of-being-redhack-member-released-by-court.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nID=58478&amp;NewsCatID=341">Barış Atay</a>, a prominent actor and <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/occupy-gezi-turkish-protest-taksim-demands/">Occupy Gezi</a> activist who says the extent of his online interaction is to check social media from his phone. Indeed, most, if not all, of those apprehended to have ties to the anti-government Gezi demonstrations, which began in late May.</p>
<p>
RedHack has certainly been a strong, vocal opponent of the Turkish government. The Prosecutors Office has previously labeled the group an &quot;armed terrorist organization&quot; and&nbsp;<a href="http://sosyalmedya.co/en/redhack-accusation/">claimed</a>&nbsp;RedHack &ldquo;has digitally published photographs of its protests, attacked the internet sites of institutions that intervened in its illegal protests or protests of similar organizations, digitally published the information and documents obtained through such attacks.&rdquo;</p>
<p>
RedHack members, however, claimed that those arrested were not tied to the group, and as if to reiterate the point, hacked the site of the Turkey&rsquo;s Justice and Development Party. Redhack posted a mock apology on behalf of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which called the persecution a &ldquo;<a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/RedHack-Hackers-Post-Apology-on-PMs-Behalf-on-Website-of-Political-Party-403383.shtml">charade</a>.&rdquo; The message was quickly wiped but not before it made international news.</p>
<p>
On Monday, the 14 accused hackers were&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/-turkish-actor-accused-of-being-redhack-member-released-by-court.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nID=58478&amp;NewsCatID=341">in court for questioning</a>, but with little available to actually link them to the actions of RedHack, they were released.</p>
<p>
<em style="font-size: 12px;">Screengrab via <a href="https://twitter.com/capulcuhalkpar/status/404522019909165056/photo/1">&Ccedil;apulcu Halk Partisi</a>/Twitter</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:31:10 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/redhack-arrested-occupy-gezi/NewsAnonymous launches campaign against Japanese dolphin huntershttp://www.dailydot.com/news/opkillingbay-japanese-dolphin-hunting/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/e4/00/e400ae4444601de8a5f35d80e5b12da6.jpg'></p><p class="p1">
The hacktivist collective <a href="http://dailydot.com/communities/anonymous/"><span class="s1">Anonymous</span></a> has defended <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-opantibully-interview-amanda-todd/"><span class="s1">bullying victims</span></a>, teens <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/anonymous-moroccan-teens-kissing-arrested-hack/"><span class="s1">arrested for kissing</span></a>, and even <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-teen-girls-cat-throwing-video/"><span class="s1">abused kittens</span></a>&mdash;and now it&rsquo;s turning its attention to another group in need: dolphins.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
Anonymous has declared open season on the dolphin hunters of Taiji, Japan in an operation called #OpKillingBay, joining forces with a global protest movement.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p3" style="text-align: center;">
<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="365" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-qarTX_db3A?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="630"></iframe></p>
<p class="p4">
&quot;Government of Japan, we have been watching you and your sick actions from a very long time. Despite several pleas from the international community, you have not stopped butchering these mammals, for your personal gains. You are putting your people&#39;s lives at risk by allowing them to consume whale meat. Not only that, you have brought great shame upon Japan by performing these acts.&quot;</p>
<p class="p2">
As detailed in the Oscar-winning documentary <a href="http://www.thecovemovie.com/"><span class="s1"><i>The Cove</i></span></a>, Taiji Cove is the home of a dolphin hunt from September to April, with pods of dolphins driven in with small boats, then trapped and picked off one by one. For the past several years, the hunt has been <a href="http://forthedolphins.tumblr.com/"><span class="s1">monitored by protesters and observers</span></a>, including supporters of the Sea Shepherd Society.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
The annual death toll has been estimated at 17,000 dolphins, despite the fact that the meat has been tested and found to be extremely high in the poisonous heavy metal mercury. Recent reports say that the kill has <a href="http://swimmingfree.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/potential-end-of-dolphin-hunting-season-and-taiji-whale-ranch/"><span class="s1">significantly declined</span></a> in the face of lessened consumer demand.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> hacks <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SeaWorld&amp;src=hash">#SeaWorld</a>. <a href="http://t.co/ltToX5enUA">http://t.co/ltToX5enUA</a> &hellip; <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpKillingBay&amp;src=hash">#OpKillingBay</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ShutTaijiDown&amp;src=hash">#ShutTaijiDown</a></p>
&mdash; PsykoAnon (@Psykocybe) <a href="https://twitter.com/Psykocybe/statuses/403823092138377216">November 22, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p class="p1">
The current, government-mandated method of killing by driving a spike through the spine at the base of the neck is less gory than the traditional method of severing the throat and leaving the mammal to bleed out into the water, but it is no less fatal.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
Some dolphins are not slaughtered, but are sold to sea life attractions such as Sea World, which is how Sea World became a target of #OpKillingBay. Anonymous claimed to have hacked the famous tourist destination and leaked a financial report.</p>
<p class="p2">
That&#39;s a bit of old-style Anonymous bluster; the financial report was not stolen, but is freely available on <a href="http://seaworld.q4web.com/financial-reports/default.aspx"><span class="s1">Sea World&#39;s own corporate site</span></a>. Not that hacks haven&#39;t surfaced. The <i>Tokyo Times</i> reported that <a href="http://www.tokyotimes.com/2013/japanese-govts-websites-hacked-by-anonymous-over-dolphin-hunt/"><span class="s1">Anonymous claimed credit </span></a>for having hacked &quot;the <a href="http://www.kantei.go.jp/"><span class="s1">prime minister&rsquo;s office</span></a>, <a href="http://town.taiji.wakayama.jp/"><span class="s1">Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture</span></a>, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,&quot; taking their sites offline or defacing them with a warning message. Anonymous claimed to have 22 government sites on its hit list.&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>
CALLING 4 <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ANONYMOUS&amp;src=hash">#ANONYMOUS</a> SUPPORT <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23JAPANDOLPHINKILLER&amp;src=hash">#JAPANDOLPHINKILLER</a> <a href="http://t.co/8HcxBfAf2p">http://t.co/8HcxBfAf2p</a> TIME&gt; <a href="http://t.co/eYshnLKp2C">http://t.co/eYshnLKp2C</a> <a href="http://t.co/WcVT8k6nWX">pic.twitter.com/WcVT8k6nWX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OPKILLINGBAY&amp;src=hash">#OPKILLINGBAY</a></p>
&mdash; CARNE RADIOACTIVA. (@YESFUCKYOUTOO) <a href="https://twitter.com/YESFUCKYOUTOO/statuses/403008156969627649">November 20, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p class="p1">
Hacks or no hacks, OpKillingBay <a href="http://pastebin.com/HX80Lu54"><span class="s1">does not officially launch until December 1</span></a>, according to the Pastebin document that announced it.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
In the meantime, another operation has sprung up: a <a href="http://cyg-one.net/TweetAgent/TweetStorms/ListTweetStormTweets.php"><span class="s1">non-Anonymous tweetstorm for the hashtag #JapanDolphinKiller</span></a>, which took place November 20. It racked up more than <a href="http://topsy.com/analytics?q1=%23japandolphinkiller&amp;via=Topsy"><span class="s1">1,600 tweets</span></a> throughout the day, including some calling for a boycott of the 2020 Olympic Games, to be held in Japan.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">
OpKillingBay&#39;s <a href="http://pastebin.com/HX80Lu54"><span class="s1">press release</span></a> doesn&#39;t give much information, saying only that volunteers are needed and that there will be DDoS attacks and &quot;cyber attacks,&quot; although it&rsquo;s not clear whether the latter are limited to DDoS or include actual hacks, leaks, infections and defaces. The tweetstorm is called for 1pm on December 1, although no time zone is specified, so the tweets will roll across the world. The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/239620102862835"><span class="s1">Facebook event</span></a> has only 55 attendees so far, and directs non-hacker types to the Wordpress site <a href="http://callofthecove.wordpress.com/"><span class="s1">Call of the Cove</span></a> for ways to contribute. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ricobarrysdolphinproject"><span class="s1">Ric O&#39;Barry&#39;s Dolphin Project Facebook page</span></a>, in contrast, has over 69,000 likes.</p>
<p class="p1">
As detailed, and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/09/dolphins-swim-eat-taiji-japan"><span class="s1">mocked</span></a>, on media sites around the world, Taiji has recently announced a novel PR effort: The town plans to open a dolphin petting zoo and theme park where people can swim with the dolphins and later dine on dolphin meat. The mayor told the Daily Yomiuri, &quot;We see the unfavorable circumstances as our opportunity to promote our town because we have co-existed with whales for generations. We will turn Taiji into a national park and museum with a whale theme.&rdquo;</p>
<p class="p1">
According to <a href="http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201311210035-0023204"><span class="s1">Al Jazeera</span></a>, the Japanese government <a href="http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/q_a/faq6.html#storify/a3f12748b4ee06f01bbd0b683075e2c8"><span class="s1">maintains</span></a> the dolphins are captured only for &quot;research,&quot; although it declines to explain how they frequently end up in supermarkets and on restaurant menus.</p>
<p class="p5">
<i>Photo via </i><a href="https://twitter.com/Marymo2014/statuses/401094444184633344"><span class="s1"><i>MaryMo2014</i></span></a><i>/Twitter</i></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:11:31 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/opkillingbay-japanese-dolphin-hunting/NewsTeen kissers in Morocco have an unexpected ally in Anonymoushttp://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-nadorkiss-tweetstorm-morocco/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/b4/a8/b4a8850f4f0af4b7b89bb95e71aebb53.jpg'></p><p>
It&#39;s not twerking. It&#39;s not grinding. It&#39;s still indecent enough to have three teens <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/moroccan-teens-facebook-kissing-arrest/">facing two years each in prison</a>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>
It&#39;s a kiss in the country of Morocco. And it&#39;s about to become much, much more famous.</p>
<p>
#NadorKiss is an international operation to raise awareness of the plight of the three teenagers from the northeastern city of Nador: a 14-year-old girl, her 15-year old swain, and their 15-year-old mutual friend, who took the <a href="http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2013/10/107833/the-kiss-of-nador-and-the-hypocrisy-of-moroccan-society/">now-infamous picture of them kissing</a> in front of their school. The hapless teens then posted it to <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/facebook/">Facebook</a>, where, predictably, all h*** broke loose when the authorities found it.</p>
<p>
The boy in the photo <a href="http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2013/10/110076/hero-of-nadors-controversial-facebook-kiss-tells-his-story/">told Nador City news</a>, &ldquo;A week after the pictures were posted, we were immediately arrested. Human rights associations demanded the arrest. And it is not their business in the first place.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
I&rsquo;ve developed a complex because of this. And this is really sad. People make fun of me in the street, at school, at home and everywhere else. They blame me for spreading indecency even if it was the girl who shared the pictures, not me. &hellip; If I knew that the kiss would cause such a[n] outcry, I wouldn&rsquo;t have indulged in such a relationship with the girl.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
The youngsters were released after a weekend in custody, pending trial. That trial begins in two days, on Nov. 22. In the meantime, <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/anonymous/">Anonymous</a> <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/anonymous-moroccan-teens-kissing-arrested-hack/">took up their cause</a>, hacking the Department of Water&#39;s website and threatening to do much more. Their focus was on the way this case highlights the imposition of localized mores on what Anonymous sees as a global frontier: the Internet. A <a href="http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=jZ4yaXNE">press release</a> outlined Anonymous&#39;s point of view:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
This is yet another example of a government taking something that wouldn&#39;t normally have been a major issue but by removing it from the usual framework it would be viewed within simply because of the &quot;online&quot; aspect, it is made into a &quot;problem.&quot;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
Today, Anons and non-anons team up in two <a href="http://pastebin.com/z4Cb5mkR">tweetstorms</a>: at 7pm and 10pm ET. The goal is to force the hashtag #NadorKiss to the top of the international trending charts, drawing the world&#39;s attention, and possibly political pressure, to bear on the court in Morocco.&nbsp;</p>
<p>
This <a href="http://pastebin.com/z4Cb5mkR">newest release</a> announcing the tweetstorm includes the specific tweets to be included (copy/pasted, as mere retweets don&#39;t help in trending statistics), and lays out the call to action. &quot;Time to be heard! &nbsp;Make no mistake about it YOU can make a difference. Morocco reversed its pardon of a pedophile based upon social media pressure so let[&#39;s] do it again.&quot;&nbsp;</p>
<p>
<em>Image via </em><a href="https://twitter.com/NadorKiss"><em>NadorKiss</em></a><em>/Twitter</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:18:24 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-nadorkiss-tweetstorm-morocco/AnonymousNewsAnonymous calls for Israeli boycott with massive Twitter protesthttp://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-opboycottisrael-bds-twitter/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/c5/f2/c5f2e5e9d3761080ce6f62c65f886be2.jpg'></p><p dir="ltr">
In July, the European Union proposed a ban on providing financial assistance to Israeli organizations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip&mdash;a move Secretary of State John Kerry&nbsp;<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/07/us-palestinians-israel-usa-europe-idUSBRE98609U20130907">urged</a>&nbsp;the E.U. to postpone. Last month, the Palestinan Authority&nbsp;<a href="http://rt.com/news/economic-boycott-israel-palestine-781/">reached out</a>&nbsp;to 50 countries around the world to apply economic pressure to companies with business dealings in Israeli settlements.</p>
<p>
<a href="http://dailydot.com/commuunities/anonymous/">Anonymous</a>&nbsp;answered.</p>
<p>
On Saturday, hacktivist collective hosted its most successful tweetstorm to date, #OpBOYCOTTIsrael, in which it provided &ldquo;70 tweets with images and articles that promote boycott and divestment, expose Israeli war crimes and crimes against Palestinian children, and call out companies who profit off Israeli apartheid.&rdquo;</p>
<p>
By flooding a given&nbsp;<a href="http://dailydot.com/communities/twitter/">Twitter</a>&nbsp;hashtag, Anonymous makes its point of focus trend globally, helping raise awareness through sheer ubiquity and curiosity. This particular tweetstorm was nearly a week in the making. A&nbsp;<a href="http://pastebin.com/KMQrCKT8">Pastebin document</a>&nbsp;detailing the objective was released Nov. 4.</p>
<p>
The long-term goal is to encourage citizens everywhere to use the so-called&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bdsmovement.net/">BDS techniques</a>&mdash;<a href="http://www.bdsmovement.net/">boycotts, divestment, and sanctions</a>&mdash;to&nbsp;to &ldquo;undermine the cash that bankrolls Palestinian oppression.&rdquo;&nbsp;It&#39;s an ambitious aim, but BDS techniques have been successful in the past.</p>
<p>
&quot;A growing number of religious and political projects across the planet are embracing disinvestment as a form of economic pressure against Israeli occupation of Palestinian land,&rdquo; reads&nbsp;<a href="http://pastebin.com/9ekYSrAa">a second, much more extensive Pastebin document</a>. &ldquo;Disinvestment works &ndash; the strategy played a potent role in dismantling apartheid in South Africa and it can work to dismantle Israeli apartheid in Palestine, too.&quot;</p>
<p>
The second Pastebin document also contains resources for Palestinians in Gaza who have had their Internet cut off in the past (remember #<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-opisrael-gaza-internet-access/">OpIsrael</a>?), including links to a dialup supplier of choice in emergency situations and a guide to dealing with the media and generating coverage.</p>
<p>
The tweetstorm was unusually disciplined and launched massively. The hashtag clocked up 22,301 tweets in its period of activity. The hashtag&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/plussone/status/399347279879876608/photo/1">trended worldwide</a>&nbsp;briefly, and the related #FreePalestine trended for several hours. Here are a few samples of the tweets shared.&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23opBOYCOTTisrael&amp;src=hash">#opBOYCOTTisrael</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CaterpillarInc">@CaterpillarInc</a> sells bulldozers to IDF that are weaponized &amp; used to demolish Palestinian homes <a href="http://t.co/RTAoHSypoh">pic.twitter.com/RTAoHSypoh</a></p>
&mdash; #GHC_sec (@Global_hackers) <a href="https://twitter.com/Global_hackers/statuses/399477659098681344">November 10, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p>
Protesters also pointed up the &quot;7 29&quot; identifier on barcodes, which shows that Israel is the point of origin of a product, and encouraged a boycott for such products.&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
Sat Nov 9 <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23opBoycottIsrael&amp;src=hash">#opBoycottIsrael</a> Because no child should live in terror | See <a href="https://twitter.com/OpBOYCOTTisrael">@OpBOYCOTTisrael</a> 8P EST/ 5P PST for full info <a href="http://t.co/eYR7qGVYtz">pic.twitter.com/eYR7qGVYtz</a></p>
&mdash; #opBOYCOTTisrael (@OpBOYCOTTisrael) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpBOYCOTTisrael/statuses/397391235226148864">November 4, 2013</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
You guys have no idea how happy I am that <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FreePalestine&amp;src=hash">#FreePalestine</a> is trending worldwide!</p>
&mdash; Palestine فلسطین (@AjustEgg) <a href="https://twitter.com/AjustEgg/statuses/399392491125760000">November 10, 2013</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
We&#39;d like to thank everyone who participated in <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23opBOYCOTTisrael&amp;src=hash">#opBOYCOTTisrael</a>!We may&#39;ve had an hr long twitstorm but the fight continues! <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FreePalestine&amp;src=hash">#FreePalestine</a></p>
&mdash; #opBOYCOTTisrael (@OpBOYCOTTisrael) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpBOYCOTTisrael/statuses/399394130968592384">November 10, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p>
According to Tweetreach, the #opBOYCOTTisrael hashtag boasted a reach of 70,000 accounts at its peak.</p>
<p>
<strong>Correction:&nbsp;</strong>The barcode number Anonymous identifed was &quot;7 29,&quot; not &quot;7 92&quot; are previously reported. We regret the error.&nbsp;</p>
<p>
<em>Photo via&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/YourAnonPicture/status/399478589592051713">YourAnonPicture</a>/Twitter</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:17:15 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-opboycottisrael-bds-twitter/AnonymousNewsHow Anonymous's iconic masks are really madehttp://www.dailydot.com/news/where-anonymous-guy-fawkes-masks-come-from/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/2b/8f/2b8f0cc820fac1208c83bb88519f0d3f.jpg'></p><p dir="ltr">
Earlier this week,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/communities/anonymous/">Anonymous</a>&nbsp;pulled off its biggest protest ever, dubbed a&nbsp;<a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/million-mask-march/">Million Mask March</a>, with participants in 400 cities worldwide. But the success of the mass demonstrations has been called into question by British newspaper the Telegraph, which claimed the hacktivist&rsquo;s trademark marks are produced by&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/marthagill/100244704/anonymous-have-been-exposed-as-hypocrites-who-use-sweatshops-watch-them-try-to-wriggle-out-of-it/">exploiting third-world workers</a>.</p>
<p>
Martha Gill, a former columnist at the <em>New Statesman</em>, wrote a blog post for <em>Telegraph</em>, about the Anonymous mask. Although the article danced around the terminology,&nbsp;<a href="http://imgur.com/OXVJv7j">on Twitter</a>&nbsp;the author wasn&#39;t as discreet, stating that Anonymous masks were made in &quot;sweatshops.&quot;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
So those V for Vendetta masks are made in sweatshops. Does this matter? <a href="http://t.co/4mT1DwpI2N">http://t.co/4mT1DwpI2N</a></p>
&mdash; Martha Gill (@Martha_Gill) <a href="https://twitter.com/Martha_Gill/statuses/398091276945354754">November 6, 2013</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/alexhern">@alexhern</a> I think the big point is that protesters can rarely afford their own principles</p>
&mdash; Martha Gill (@Martha_Gill) <a href="https://twitter.com/Martha_Gill/statuses/398103357119660033">November 6, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p>
Anonymous, which prides itself on being the voice of the voiceless, quickly refuted the allegations. The&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/YourAnonNews">@YourAnonNews</a>&nbsp;Twitter account, which boasts over 1 million followers, tweeted a link to&nbsp;<a href="http://pastebin.com/sK6Zi3EM">a Pastebin document</a>&nbsp;laying out the actual circumstances of the manufacture of the&nbsp;<a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/guy-fawkes/">Guy Fawkes</a>&nbsp;masks.</p>
<p>
&ldquo;The truth is, Gill based her article on a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/anonymous-masks-photo-stirs-controversy-guy-fawkes-day-1456790">photograph taken by Getty photographer Buda Mendes</a>&nbsp;at the Condal Masks Factory in S&atilde;o Goncalo &hellip; where artists produced an estimated 200,000 masks yearly,&rdquo; Anonymous wrote.</p>
<p>
Declared Brazil&rsquo;s &ldquo;oldest and most productive mask factory&rdquo; by the&nbsp;<a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/brazil-whats-behind-carnival-masks-and-disguises">Associated Press</a>, Condal was started in 1958 and produces hundreds of thousands of masks a year, mostly involving Carnival.</p>
<p>
&ldquo;Frankly, it&rsquo;s sad that a photograph of dark-skinned people at work is immediately associated with forced labor,&rdquo; Anonymous wrote.</p>
<p>
There are also many Anonymous masks that are not produced by Condal. The white, thin plastic masks are available across Asia and the Middle East, other created print-out copies, and WikiLeaks truck artist&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/wikileaks-truck-clark-stoeckley/">Clark Stoekley</a>&nbsp;sells custom sculpted masks.</p>
<p>
That doesn&rsquo;t resolve the issue of Anonymous contributing to Warner Bros., the company responsible for V for Vendetta and a known lobbyist for the controversial&nbsp;<a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/sopa/">Stop Online Piracy Act</a>, which Anonymous actively protested.</p>
<p>
&ldquo;This is not a fact that Anonymous has tried to obscure from the public,&rdquo; Anonymous wrote. &ldquo;In fact, the day before the Million Mask March, YourAnonNews tweeted that it did not recommend people purchase the mask, then stated, &lsquo;Wear anything you want to #MillionMaskMarch, including Guy Fawkes. We just want people to be conscious about their consumer choices.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
<p>
Reached for comment, Gill pointed out that her article did not explicitly call the mask factory a &ldquo;sweatshop.&rdquo; Asked about her tweet using the word, she wrote, &ldquo;Don&#39;t think you can pick out one tweet about it for particular scrutiny.&rdquo;</p>
<p>
<em>Photo via&nbsp;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theredproject/">Michael Mandiberg</a>Flickr</em></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Fri, 08 Nov 2013 22:36:48 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/where-anonymous-guy-fawkes-masks-come-from/AnonymousNewsAnonymous seeks stronghold for Million Mask March in Southeast Asiahttp://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-singapore-philippines-million-mask-march/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/20/12/201215243ff34729b395fa7b44c3eadb.jpg'></p><p>
Is an Asian Autumn happening online via&nbsp;<a href="http://dailydot.com/communities/anonymous/">Anonymous</a>?</p>
<p>
In anticipation of the worldwide&nbsp;<a href="http://www.freedistrict.com/discover/4409/million-mask-march-locations-2013-uk-los-angles-denver-melbourne-seatle-and-philippines.html">Million Mask March</a>&nbsp;on Nov. 5, Anonymous has declared cyberwar on the governments of Singapore, the Philippines, and Indonesia, leading to the defacement of dozens of government websites across Asia.</p>
<p>
On Friday, Anonymous also&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/01/singapore-strait-times-hacked-anonymous_n_4188248.html">defaced the website of Singapore&#39;s&nbsp;<em>Strait Times</em></a>&nbsp;newspaper over a &ldquo;very misleading&rdquo; blog post that covered the collective&rsquo;s threats against the government of Singapore in the following video, which has been viewed over $375,000 times since Oct. 31.</p>
<p>
<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="365" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/B8x3z1zpffk?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p>
The video was posted in response to a Singapore policy that &ldquo;requires some news websites to obtain licenses and possibly remove offensive content,&rdquo; Huffington Post reports, a move that would, according to critics, greatly restrict freedom of speech and personal privacy online. It also followed the city-state&rsquo;s announcement of a $105 million investment in digital defense security over the next five years. &nbsp;</p>
<p>
Anonymous called on &ldquo;fellow Singaporean brothers and sisters&rdquo; to protest by dressing fully in black and red on Nov. 5 and paint the &ldquo;streets with the colors that represent the current Singaporeans emotion.&rdquo; Anonymous also urged Singaporean supporters to change their Facebook profile photos to black and to post a status update that declares, &ldquo;I want my freedom back!!&rdquo;</p>
<p>
Across Southeast Asia, Anonymous is preparing for its Million Mask March. There&rsquo;s a corresponding&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdDKjpbaQkE">Filipino video</a>&nbsp;(seen below), and over 1,300 people have signed up on the accompanying&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1404013603145819/">Facebook event</a>&nbsp;for the Batasang Pambansa, the federal legislature of the Philippines.</p>
<p>
<iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="365" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rdDKjpbaQkE?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="640"></iframe></p>
<p>
Hackers also defaced several government websites and&nbsp;<a href="https://says-news-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/story_source/source_image/203938/e85b.png">replaced the pages</a>&nbsp;with the announcement video and an image from&nbsp;<em>V for Vendetta</em>. The Facebook page reportedly&nbsp;<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/anonymous-collective-hackers-intensify-cyber-attacks-across-southeast-asia-20131103-hv2bx.html">claims</a>&nbsp;that at least a dozen government websites were defaced to bring attention to the current bribery scandal implicating president Benigno Aquino. Alternate news site the Anti Media listed&nbsp;<a href="http://theantimedia.org/anonymous-philippines-just-hacked-30-government-websites-and-posted-this-video-on-them/">30 sites</a>&nbsp;it claims were successfully defaced, some of which&nbsp;<a href="http://3rddistrictoflaguna.com/">still</a>&nbsp;show the headless Anonymous emblem as the favicon in the browser tab.</p>
<p>
In Indonesia, self-identified Anonymous hackers attacked roughly&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-opaustralia-indonesian-hackers/">178 Australian websites</a>, in response to the&nbsp;<a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/edward-snowden/">Edward Snowden</a>&nbsp;leak to&nbsp;<em>Der Speigel</em>&nbsp;that exposed Australian government cooperation with U.S. spying efforts. The sites were not government sites, however, but generally outdated and vulnerable &ldquo;civilian&rdquo; sites, many of which continue to display the defaced page. Some of the sites also belonged to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-opaustralia-indonesian-hackers/">charitable and nonprofit organizations</a>.</p>
<p>
No database hacking or data destruction was reported in any of the attacks across Malaysia, the Philippines, or Indonesia.</p>
<p>
<i>Illustration by Jason Reed</i></p>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:54:06 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-singapore-philippines-million-mask-march/NewsThe best Guy Fawkes masks in Anonymous historyhttp://www.dailydot.com/irl/best-guy-fawkes-anonymous-masks/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/66/fa/66faa1e2f48f29337017e7786cdc698c.jpg'></p><p>
Blame it on Warner Brothers.</p>
<p>
The company&rsquo;s anarchist blockbuster&nbsp;<em>V for Vendetta</em>&nbsp;(based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore) came out just in time to guarantee that its iconic&nbsp;<a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/guy-fawkes/">Guy Fawkes</a>&nbsp;mask would be available in every major city right before&nbsp;<a href="http://dailydot.com/communities/anonymous/">Anonymous</a>&nbsp;called for its first major in-person operation, a series of worldwide protests against the Church of Scientology.</p>
<p>
Anonymous&rsquo; public &ldquo;face&rdquo; was once a faceless stick figure cartoon known as<a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/epic-fail-guy">&nbsp;Epic Fail Guy</a>, a self-deprecating identifier for 4chan members, a group which at the time largely saw itself as basement dwelling wankers. But awesome basement-dwelling wankers. Anonymous emerged from 4chan, essentially evolving into its internet pranking arm. Not long after his creation, Epic Fail Guy stumbled across a Guy Fawkes mask, put it on, and the rest is history.</p>
<p>
In 2008, while gearing up for OpChanology, the in-person protests against Scientology, Anons needed a way to identify themselves as such while still hiding their faces. The Guy Fawkes mask was chosen because it was both affordable and ubiquitous worldwide. Revolutionary echoes handed down from Fawkes himself certainly added to its appeal.</p>
<p>
However, the semiotics of the mask were actually directed at Scientology, intended to brand it a failure. Fawkes, after all, had to replace his gunpowder stock when the first stash deteriorated, failed in his attempt to get Spain to invade England or support his revolution, and failed at this ultimate attempt to take out Parliament. He at last succeeded in killing himself.</p>
<p>
Instead of registering as a symbol of failure, the heroic/outsider aspects of the mask were taken to heart by the public at large (who had no knowledge of 4chan&rsquo;s history) and ultimately by Anonymous itself, which is not immune to the warm fuzzies given to our cultural icons.</p>
<p>
In honor of Halloween and the upcoming&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/tags/million-mask-march/">Million Mask March</a>, I&#39;ve rooted through my extensive collection of adapted Anonymous masks. The image that sparked the collection has long since fallen off Google: It was a standard-issue Fawkes mask painted over to turn it into&nbsp;<a href="http://spiritedaway.wikia.com/wiki/No-Face_%28Kaonashi%29">No-Face,</a>&nbsp;the misunderstood monster from Hayao Miyazaki&#39;s animated masterpiece&nbsp;<em>Spirited Away</em>.</p>
<p>
Here&rsquo;s an entirely arbitrary scrapbook of the most interesting variations on the Guy Fawkes mask over the past couple of years.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/10/31/Anonymous_Bandanna.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 753px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">Matthew Borgatti&#39;s Anonymous Bandana is still&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/85228426/ows-bandana-presale" style="font-size: 12px;">available on Etsy</a><span style="font-size: 12px;">.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/10/30/Anon_Origami.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 500px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">The Origami Fawkes</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">
<small><em>Photo and instructions via&nbsp;</em><a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Guy-Fawkes-Mask-in-Origami/"><em>Instructables</em></a></small></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/10/30/Guy_Fawkes_Mask.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 707px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">The print your own version as worn by the Polish parliament</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">
<small><em>Photo via&nbsp;</em><a href="http://www.marianhurducas.ro/umbra-marketingului-la-protestele-anti-acta-de-la-cluj-interviu/"><em>Marian Hurducas</em></a></small></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RT&amp;src=hash">#RT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23anonymous&amp;src=hash">#anonymous</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23anonfam&amp;src=hash">#anonfam</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AnonEXTREME&amp;src=hash">#AnonEXTREME</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23anonBritain&amp;src=hash">#anonBritain</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23anoncentral&amp;src=hash">#anoncentral</a> <a href="http://t.co/NOZBFZtyx1">pic.twitter.com/NOZBFZtyx1</a></p>
&mdash; Anonymous Share (@AnonShare) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonShare/statuses/355081425038483456">July 10, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/10/30/Anonymous_mask_Idle_No_More.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 646px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">A First Nations/Idle No More variant from&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.anonymousartofrevolution.com/2013/01/anonymous-mask-how-to-make.html" style="font-size: 12px;">Anonymous Art of Revolution</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/10/30/Julian_Assange_Black_Mask.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 304px;" /><br />
<a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/julian-assange/" style="font-size: 12px;">Julian Assang</a><span style="font-size: 12px;">e&#39;s black Kevlar bulletproof mask, the colors signifying a state of emergency. It was made for him by&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/wikileaks-truck-clark-stoeckley/" style="font-size: 12px;">Clark Stoekley</a><span style="font-size: 12px;">, the WikiLeaks truck artist who creates custom designed masks.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">
<small><em>Photo via&nbsp;<a href="http://raincoaster.com/2013/03/18/just-fine-thank-you/">Wordpress.com</a></em></small></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/10/30/Anonymous_Masks_Clark_Stoekley.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 373px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">An assortment of polycarbonate masks by Stoekley, available for sale or new commission&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.cstoeckley.com/WikiLeaksTruck.html#wepay-shop-item-detail-951717" style="font-size: 12px;">on his website</a><span style="font-size: 12px;">.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/10/30/Anonymous_Commander_Anarchy.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 887px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">An impact resistant Commander Anarchist mask by&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/Cookielecroix?ref=l2-shopheader-name" style="font-size: 12px;">Cookielecroix</a><span style="font-size: 12px;">&nbsp;on Etsy</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/10/30/diverse-guy-fawkes-masks-animal.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 281px;" /><br />
<a href="http://www.animalnewyork.com/2013/diversifying-the-anonymous-guy-fawkes-mask/" style="font-size: 12px;">Animal New York&#39;</a><span style="font-size: 12px;">s panoply of ethnically diverse anons</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/10/30/stephen-colbert-guy-fawkes-mask.png" style="width: 500px; height: 282px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">Stephen Colbert&#39;s mysterious Anonymous shadowcast mask</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">
<small><em>Photo via&nbsp;</em><a href="http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/stephen-colbert-responds-to-anonymous-guy-fawkes-mask-incident/"><em>Leaksource</em></a></small></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/10/30/Syrianon.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 333px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">SyriAnon at Toronto&#39;s Free Syria protest</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">
<small><em>Photo&nbsp;</em><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cookedphotos/8562641901/"><em>Jason Cook/Flickr</em></a></small></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/10/30/Molly_Crabapples_mask.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 749px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">Artist Molly Crabapple&#39;s personalized Anonymous mask</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">
<em><small>Photo via&nbsp;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/audreypenven/6984879068/">Audrey Penven</a>/Flickr</small></em></p>
<p>
And some amazing pictures that came via Twitter:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
We all shud march unto the hill in these... &quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/Ostwelve">@Ostwelve</a>: Bro Bro Fawkes <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NativerThanYou&amp;src=hash">#NativerThanYou</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TurtleIsland&amp;src=hash">#TurtleIsland</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="http://t.co/GtXRUQjQ">pic.twitter.com/GtXRUQjQ</a>&quot;</p>
&mdash; Lazy Horse (@TP_TV) <a href="https://twitter.com/TP_TV/statuses/256271897111695361">October 11, 2012</a></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<small>Another great iteration of the First Nations theme.</small></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
&gt; Photo: Guy Fawkes Makeup <a href="http://t.co/ds5hoNbA">http://t.co/ds5hoNbA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a></p>
&mdash; Anonymous Circle (@AnonCircle) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonCircle/statuses/255947967847084032">October 10, 2012</a></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<small>Absolutely, bar none, the best makeup Fawkes out there. Challenge accepted?</small></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> Guarani Kaiow&aacute; <a href="http://t.co/NkY2cnfK">pic.twitter.com/NkY2cnfK</a></p>
&mdash; Anonymous (@AnonIRC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonIRC/statuses/261981938796085248">October 27, 2012</a></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<small>A custom variant in the style of the traditional makeup of the Guarani-Kaiow&aacute; people of Paraguay.</small></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23expect&amp;src=hash">#expect</a> us <a href="http://t.co/bAtbQB3J">pic.twitter.com/bAtbQB3J</a></p>
&mdash; F.A.C.E (@F8C3) <a href="https://twitter.com/F8C3/statuses/288566380431818752">January 8, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<small>A unique combination of the Headless Man and Guy Fawkes anon identifiers.</small></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
Promises of Liberty at <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpFkLAPD&amp;src=hash">#OpFkLAPD</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="http://t.co/BH9xk2QB">pic.twitter.com/BH9xk2QB</a></p>
&mdash; S1N1ST3R #AmeriSec (@SinisterAnon) <a href="https://twitter.com/SinisterAnon/statuses/303001635934855168">February 17, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<small>Another AmericAnon.</small></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/anon99percenter">@anon99percenter</a> It feels good to have <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> friends. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IdleNoMore&amp;src=hash">#IdleNoMore</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ExpectUs&amp;src=hash">#ExpectUs</a> <a href="http://t.co/0WBaUGLWLd">pic.twitter.com/0WBaUGLWLd</a></p>
&mdash; Brian (@watching_crows) <a href="https://twitter.com/watching_crows/statuses/327698070747901953">April 26, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<small>A poignant iteration from IdleNoMore.</small></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AnonymousPhoto&amp;src=hash">#AnonymousPhoto</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="http://t.co/NAhCdnWkP8">pic.twitter.com/NAhCdnWkP8</a></p>
&mdash; YourAnonPhoto (@YourAnonPhoto) <a href="https://twitter.com/YourAnonPhoto/statuses/375373885115355136">September 4, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<small>Back to basic binary for this faceless Guy.</small></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymiss&amp;src=hash">#Anonymiss</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Picture&amp;src=hash">#Picture</a> <a href="http://t.co/3KJLOS2kYP">pic.twitter.com/3KJLOS2kYP</a></p>
&mdash; Anonymiss Cynthia Fr (@AnonFreedomArt) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnonFreedomArt/statuses/390859634015084544">October 17, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<small>The best of both worlds with this AnonyMiss.</small></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/GetEQUALTX_Jenn">@GetEQUALTX_Jenn</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/jaysays">@jaysays</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/KitOConnell">@KitOConnell</a> Did I go overboard with the glitter <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="http://t.co/7rKpFID8cK">pic.twitter.com/7rKpFID8cK</a>&quot; jealous! I love it. Fabulous</p>
&mdash; Kit O&#39;Connell (@KitOConnell) <a href="https://twitter.com/KitOConnell/statuses/389851883260895232">October 14, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<small>Of course this Gay Pride iteration is nothing less than fabulous!</small></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
Шахайайайхахааййййй!!!! <a href="http://t.co/lFo7YrYl6g">pic.twitter.com/lFo7YrYl6g</a></p>
&mdash; Lex Valeria-Horatio (@subverzo) <a href="https://twitter.com/subverzo/statuses/387805962113142784">October 9, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<small>Subverzohas always favored a Plague Doctor mask. A rebel? In Anonymous? You don&#39;t say!</small></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/10/30/Third_Eye_Anon.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 500px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: 12px;">A slightly psychedelic version with a prominent third eye. (Does anybody else remember&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.dailydot.com/society/anonymous-ethersec-opepoch-tweets/" style="font-size: 12px;">Ethersec</a><span style="font-size: 12px;">?)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">
<em>Photo via&nbsp;<a href="http://instagram.com/p/gBj2SYkIOi/">dr3amsinfinit3/Instagram</a></em></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
A friend made this for halloween. Epic! &lt;3 <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MillionMaskMarch&amp;src=hash">#MillionMaskMarch</a> <a href="http://t.co/2JG8YVbYJ2">http://t.co/2JG8YVbYJ2</a></p>
&mdash; Topi (@Utopianon) <a href="https://twitter.com/Utopianon/statuses/394812086351458304">October 28, 2013</a></blockquote>
<p>
Happy Halloween, everyone! and always remember, remember&hellip;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p>
Really truly <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Anonymous&amp;src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="http://t.co/wSR1JrWv9J">pic.twitter.com/wSR1JrWv9J</a></p>
&mdash; m a n y f e s t o (@ManyfestoEditor) <a href="https://twitter.com/ManyfestoEditor/statuses/352033271498031104">July 2, 2013</a></blockquote>
raincoaster@dailydot.com (Lorraine Murphy)Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:50:35 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/irl/best-guy-fawkes-anonymous-masks/IRL